A good continuation of the series - but I preferred the previous two......
Having read the first two books in the series I was looking forward to seeing what Nicholas Shelby and Bianca Merton got up to next.
This was very much in the same vein as it's predecessors - but, whereas the previous books were wholly based in Elizabethan London, this time the action is spread between London and Morocco.
In London there is a murder - and what looks like a very tortured end. Bianca is investigating who may be behind this crime - whilst her services as an apothecary are very much in demand as the plague has crossed over to her side of the Thames.
Meanwhile Nicholas has been "blackmailed" into travelling to Morocco by Robert Cecil. His man in Morocco has gone mysteriously silent and Cecil wants to know why.
It turns out that the two occurrences are linked but can they both, independently, work out the connection?
It's non stop from start to finish and really paints a vivid picture of what life was like back in the 16th century.
This was very much in the same vein as it's predecessors - but, whereas the previous books were wholly based in Elizabethan London, this time the action is spread between London and Morocco.
In London there is a murder - and what looks like a very tortured end. Bianca is investigating who may be behind this crime - whilst her services as an apothecary are very much in demand as the plague has crossed over to her side of the Thames.
Meanwhile Nicholas has been "blackmailed" into travelling to Morocco by Robert Cecil. His man in Morocco has gone mysteriously silent and Cecil wants to know why.
It turns out that the two occurrences are linked but can they both, independently, work out the connection?
It's non stop from start to finish and really paints a vivid picture of what life was like back in the 16th century.