John Shakespeare has had a quiet five years since his last job as an intelligencer. He and his wife Catherine have a five year old daughter, Mary. John now runs a school for young orphan boys. But that quiet life is about to be disturbed.
He is requested by Lord Essex to find a young woman who may have returned to England from the colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoke. Shakespeare doesn't know the reason why he is to look for the woman, and decides not to, until the strong man of Essex, a certain McGunn, threatens the life of Shakespeare's wife and daughter.
Within a short time, Shakespeare is also requested by Robert Cecil to investigate Essex himself. Essex is a threat to Good Queen Elizabeth. Shakespeare can't refuse this request, so he is now a double agent. He must keep one investigation secret from the other. And, on top of that, Topcliffe continues to threaten his wife, who is a Catholic in a protestant England.
How will Shakespeare manage to balance all of this without losing the lives of his loved ones, and his own life for that matter. This is an excellent historical murder mystery thriller by author Rory Clements, and I thoroughly enjoyed it as I am sure that you will, too.
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