A Murder of Crows - Chisholm, P F
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Praise for A Murder of Crows... "Carey and Dodd are...the best detective pairing since Holmes and Watson." -Sharon Kay Penman "I am enslaved by the charms of Sergeant Dodd and by Patricia Finney's 3-D world of Elizabethan mayhem, murder, and hair-raising politics." -Diana Gabaldon It's September 1592, and Sergeant Dodd is in London with Sir Robert Carey. Carey needs to get back to Carlisle, but his father, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, wants him stay to investigate the corpse washed up from the Thames on Her Majesty's privy steps. Meanwhile, Dodd has decided to seek revenge for his mistreatment by the…mehr

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Praise for A Murder of Crows... "Carey and Dodd are...the best detective pairing since Holmes and Watson." -Sharon Kay Penman "I am enslaved by the charms of Sergeant Dodd and by Patricia Finney's 3-D world of Elizabethan mayhem, murder, and hair-raising politics." -Diana Gabaldon It's September 1592, and Sergeant Dodd is in London with Sir Robert Carey. Carey needs to get back to Carlisle, but his father, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, wants him stay to investigate the corpse washed up from the Thames on Her Majesty's privy steps. Meanwhile, Dodd has decided to seek revenge for his mistreatment by the Queen's Vice Chamberlain. But none of the London lawyers will take the brief against such a dangerous courtier. Then a mysterious young lawyer with a pock-marked face eagerly offers to help.... Patricia Finney's 15 novels include the Robert Carey series set in Elizabethan England. www.patricia-finney.co.uk
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Patricia Finney has been writing since she was seven, writing novels and screenplays since the age of fifteen and a published author since she was 18. She has a degree in Modern History from Oxford University - where she also met her late husband, American lawyer Christopher Perry. Since then, she has had a chequered career in which she has written a weekly column for a Fleet Street paper, edited a medical journal, won the top BBC Radio Drama Prize for her play A ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS, sold advertising, been a dreadful secretary, and most recently opened, run and sold a coffee shop called Words. She also lived in Spain for two and a half years. She has published fifteen novels, including three Elizabethan thrillers, two childrens' books told by a dog (I, Jack series), the first books of the Lady Grace series for children and, of course, the Robert Carey series of crime novels set in Elizabethan England. At the moment she is researching the sixth Carey story, writing another Elizabethan crime novel, rewriting scripts and having a whale of a time broadcasting Word Warriors, a literary show on her local community radio station (www.thesourcefm.co.uk).