My favourite book of the series so far

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"The Saracen's Mark" is the third book in the Jackdaw Mysteries series by S W Perry, and it is my favourite so far. We meet up again with physician Nicholas Shelby, and tavern-keeper and apothecary Bianca Merton in this, their third adventure: and what an adventure it is.

Not only do they both have to contend with the squalid and plague-ridden streets of Elizabethan London, Nicholas then embarks on a dangerous and eventful sea journey to Morocco at the command of Robert Cecil. The journey there is pretty harrowing, but nothing at all compared with what Nicholas experiences once he reaches his wonderfully-described destination.

You can tell that a great deal of research was undertaken in the writing of this novel, which was a pleasure to read from start to finish.