This is the third in a series of books about excommunicated, Italian monk, Giordano Bruno. Bruno is a spy for the court of Queen Elizabeth. It is 1584, and he is reunited with Sophia Underhill, the disgraced daughter of the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, who he met in Heresy, the first book of the series. Sophia is on the run after being accused of murdering her husband, a magistrate in Canterbury. Bruno goes there in an attempt to clear her name while also acting as a spy for the Queen and the Earl of Walsingham. While there he discovers that there is much evil in the famous cathedral city. Other murders, including those of two children, draw Bruno into a dangerous situation and ultimately being accused of murder himself. There is evil, intrigue, suspicion, and the mystery of what happened to the bones of Thomas Beckett. All combine to make this a page turner.
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