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The Saracen's Mark

By: S.W. Perry
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
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London, 1593.

Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick physician – and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a life on Bankside. But in London there is always a plot afoot …

Robert Cecil, the Queen’s spymaster, once again recruits Nicholas to embark on a dangerous undercover mission that will take him to the back alleys of Marrakech in search of a missing informer. However, while Nicholas hunts for the truth across the seas, plague returns once more to London, ravaging the streets and threatening those dearest to him.

Can Bianca and Nicholas’s budding relationship weather the threats of pestilence and conspiracy? And will Nicholas survive the dangers of his mission in a hostile city to return safely home?

©2020 S.W. Perry (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Fiction Historical Mystery Romance England

Critic reviews

'S.W. Perry's ingeniously plotted novels have become my favourite historical crime series.' (S.G. MacLean, author of The Seeker)
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I did not want this book to end. I felt like I had been transported back in time and was living through the highs, lows and adventures of Nicholas and Bianca.
I can't wait for the next book. it cannot possibly end here!!
Gripping, sad, funny and educational all rolled into one.
brilliant narration.

another brilliant book

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Really enjoyed Kris Dyers reading of another book in SW Perry's Tudor Jackdaw series. Nicholas Shelby physician and reluctant spy finds himself in the perilous waters off the Barbary coast where life is cheap and a man can disappear into the brutal world of slavery

SW Perry's Tudor novels never fail to entertain

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Not only is this novel a well written and immersive journey through Elizabethan London and North Africa, the performance by narrator Kris Dyer is fantastic. Highly recommended.

An Excellent Performance of a Thoroughly Entertaining Book

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Good historical novel, I found the delivery a little mannered. I also found parts predictable. Still worth listening to.

Good Story

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This audiobook is performed with consummate skill by Kris Dyer and I thoroughly enjoyed the journey with him, whether in London's Bankside or North Africa. The plot and its settings give a sense of the wider activities of the Elizabethans and the relationships forged both for commerce and political benefit (what changes). The spymaster Rob Cecil is seen in less stereotypic light which was good to see. Our hero, Nicholas Shelby still suffers bodily pains for the adventures he involves himself in and Bianca Merton again shows her steel, care for others and ability to be caught out in intrigue. Whilst there are horrors in the novel there are heavy doses of humour. There are characters to warm to and others to despise. I wonder how other listeners will respond to the concluding pages and whether they will chase-on to the next novel. I will wait awhile to to savour it and the other two novel in the series over a period of months. S W Perry is an accomplished writer and cares about the language he uses. I questioned his use of the word velocity, and on checking it is noted in the fifteenth century, so all to the good, Fully recommended.

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