I'm currently reading a new historical crime novel that has real potential to be a good series if it continues. I have cautious excitement about it right now. It's HERESY by S.J. Parris. It is 1st of one in (hopeful) series featuring Giordano Bruno, monk, poet, scientist and magicianon the run from the Roman Inquisition, acting as an agent for Queen Elizabeth I, Oxford, England 16th century. Here is a description:
Set in 1583 against a backdrop of religious-political intrigue and barbaric judicial reprisals, Giordano Bruno is a former Italian monk excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church and hunted across Europe by the Inquisition for his belief in a heliocentric infinite universe. Befriended by the charismatic English courtier and soldier Sir Philip Sidney, the ambitious Bruno flees to more tolerant Protestant England, where Elizabeth I's secretary of state, Sir Francis Walsingham, recruits him to spy, under the cover of philosophical disputation, on secretly Catholic Oxford scholars suspected of plotting treason. As one Oxford fellow after another falls to gruesome homicide, Bruno struggles to unravel Oxford's tangled loyalties.
It was published last month and has 488 pages. I'm reading it on the Kindle. If you like CJ Sansom, you may enjoy this one.
Work was being a Monday but at least we had some people back to help cover the phones. Walked Tug after work and got hailed on -- less than pea sized but hail and wet nonetheless. Now I'm ignoring the news, cleaning up emails and I'll go read in bed for a bit.
Sleep tight, everyone...
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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