Another Elizabethan masterpiece from S W Perry featuring the physician, Nicholas Shelby, and apothecary, Bianca Merton.
As in The Angel's Mark, Nicholas is tasked by hunchbacked spymaster, Robert Cecil, to investigate possible medical malpractice. He uncovers a plot which threatens both the sovereign and the religion of Britain.
I enjoy reading historic novels set in the Tudor period and am a big fan of C J Sansom's Shardlake and Rory Clement's John Shakespeare. However, after just 2 novels, Shelby and Bianca have already surpassed them both, in my opinion.
The author really makes me feel that I am there in the period sharing the political dangers, religious uncertainties and medical ignorance of that time.
I wanted to read this book as slowly as I could so that I could savour the wonderful descriptions and careful witticisms but still finished it in 24 hours! Guess I'll have to read it again.
As in The Angel's Mark, Nicholas is tasked by hunchbacked spymaster, Robert Cecil, to investigate possible medical malpractice. He uncovers a plot which threatens both the sovereign and the religion of Britain.
I enjoy reading historic novels set in the Tudor period and am a big fan of C J Sansom's Shardlake and Rory Clement's John Shakespeare. However, after just 2 novels, Shelby and Bianca have already surpassed them both, in my opinion.
The author really makes me feel that I am there in the period sharing the political dangers, religious uncertainties and medical ignorance of that time.
I wanted to read this book as slowly as I could so that I could savour the wonderful descriptions and careful witticisms but still finished it in 24 hours! Guess I'll have to read it again.