Traitor – Rory Clements

My first encounter with John Shakespeare, brother of Will, in this crime novel set in Elizabethan England.

He’s a spy-cum-sleuth working for Sir Robert Cecil, Queen Elizabeth’s Secretary of State. In this fourth book in the Shakespeare series, the plot revolves around a new invention, the English Navy’s new secret weapon in the war against Spain – a spyglass. With England still working through the ramifications of the Reformation, and in the decade after the Spanish Armada, the potential for Catholic plots against the protestant Queen is plenty.

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