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December by phil rickman6/23/2023 ![]() In this second book of the acclaimed historical series featuring Dr. Devious politics, small-town corruption, twisted religion, and a brooding superstition leave John Dee isolated in the land of his father. ![]() Now, on the same haunted hill, another dead man has been found, similarly slashed. After the battle, many of the English bodies were, according to legend, obscenely mutilated. They travel with a London judge sent to try a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy dating back to the Battle of Brynglas. With Dee goes Robert Dudley, considered the most hated man in England. Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his family's old home on the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited with supernatural properties. John Dee, astrologer royal, adviser on the Hidden, and one of Dudley's oldest friends, is uncertain. Did Dudley's wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall in a deserted house, or was it murder? Even Dr. ![]() At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumor shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth. ![]() SansomĪll talk is of the End-time, and the dead are rising. ![]() Tudor intrigue, murder, and the dark arts-the second in a stunning and acclaimed historical series starring Dr. ![]()
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