The Devil's Chalice
Price
$16.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
280
Publisher
MadeGlobal Publishing
Publication Date
April 14, 2023
ISBN-13
978-8494489389
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches
Weight
12.6 ounces
Description
Derek (D.K.) Wilson is an historian and expert on the Tudor period. He is the author of the Tudor mystery novels The First Horseman, The Traitor's Mark and The Devil's Chalice (MadeGlobal Publishing), all of which star a young goldsmith called Thomas Treviot.As Derek Wilson, he has published a range of acclaimed non-fiction books on Tudor England and Henry VIII, including 'The Plantagenets: The Kings that Made Britain' and 'The English Reformation: How England was Transformed by the Tudors'.
Features & Highlights
- The third book in the acclaimed series of
- Thomas Treviot
- Tudor crime thrillers - Based on REAL TUDOR CRIME RECORDS.
- The Real Crime
- In the steaming summer of 1549 two men languish in the Tower of London. William West is accused of attempted murder. Robert Allen is under investigation for dabbling in the Black Arts. Meanwhile, England is in the grip of rebellions against the boy king, Edward VI. The connections between these facts remains a mystery.
- Our Story
- London goldsmith, Thomas Treviot, is sent by his patron, Archbishop Cranmer, to discover discreetly what connections West has with leading figures at court. But Thomas has problems of his own: his teenage son has gone off to Norwich to join rebels led by Robert Kett. Trying to find his son and please Cranmer, he is plunged into dangers from peasant mobs, London gangsters and political chicanery, not to mention an enemy wielding occult power...
- Once again,
- D.K. Wilson
- bases his story on documented facts in order to evoke the feverish atmosphere of 1549's 'summer of discontent' in which magic was as real to people as mob violence and political scheming.
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- 'Derek Wilson is a fine historian - and he can also tell a gripping story. This is historical fiction at its best, effortlessly underpinned by a wealth of research by a writer whose understanding of the period is profound.'
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- Alison Weir
- , author of Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen
