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Death of a Renegade

by John Pilkington Book 3 in the The Bishopsgate Ward Mysteries series.

First published 2026

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Bishopsgate Ward, 1596. Rumours of another Spanish Armada force Matthew Cutler and his fellow constables to muster the local trained band. During a mock battle on Mile End Green, military drilling turns into a brawl and one man dies. Cutler quickly concludes that the death was deliberate rather than an accident of rough training.

His inquiry exposes links to English Catholic exiles serving Spain and to an assassin hidden among the militia. As reports of the Spanish fleet increase public fear, a second murder makes the local investigation inseparable from the wider war. Cutler must uncover treachery without allowing religious suspicion to substitute for proof. The third Bishopsgate mystery brings the Second Spanish Armada of 1596 into the streets and parish politics of London.

Historical Periods

Elizabethan London1558–1603 Second Spanish Armada1596

Genres

Crime & Mystery Historical Thriller

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