The Saracen's Mark

'DRAMATIC AND COLOURFUL' SUNDAY TIMES 'MY FAVOURITE HISTORICAL CRIME SERIES' S. G. MacLEAN England, 1593: Five years on from the Armada and Elizabeth's kingdom seems secure. But there is always a plot afoot…

Robert Cecil, the Queen's spymaster, needs Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick physician – to embark on an undercover mission once again. One that he can't refuse, if he wants to keep Bianca Merton safe.

Crossing the seas to Marrakesh in search of a missing informer, Nicholas hunts the dingy back alleys and dazzling palaces for the truth. But his search reveals a deadly conspiracy, one far more difficult to survive than he'd ever imagined.

And back in London the plague has returned, ravaging the streets and threatening everything he holds most dear… ________________________ Praise for The Jackdaw Mysteries, a CWA Dagger and HWA Crown finalist series 'S. W. Perry is one of the best'

The Times 'No-one is better than S. W. Perry at leading us through the squalid streets of London in the sixteenth century' Andrew Swanston 'Historical fiction at its most sumptuous' Rory Clements