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Sam Burnell

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Sam Burnell is a British author of historical adventure, espionage and murder mysteries set primarily in Tudor England. Based in North East England, she has a longstanding interest in history and archaeology and returned to university to study archaeology during a career break. Her novels combine political conspiracy, military action and criminal investigation with the dynastic and religious instability of the sixteenth century, particularly the dangerous years surrounding Henry VIII’s death and the succession struggles involving Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

Burnell’s fiction is almost entirely historical. Her Mercenary for Hire series begins with the prequel The Tudor Heresy and continues through A Queen’s Spy, A Queen’s Traitor, A Queen’s Mercenary, A Queen’s Knight, A Queen’s Assassin, A Queen’s Executioner, A Queen’s Champion, A Queen’s Conspirator, A Queen’s Rebel and A Queen’s Privateer. She also writes the Tudor-set Myles Devereux Murder Mysteries: An Invisible Betrayal, Chance Is a Game, A Time to Deceive and Uncertain Odds. These novels follow a powerful figure in Tudor London’s underworld as he investigates murders and navigates rivalries, corruption and political intrigue.

Periods and events

Elizabethan Age1558–1603 CE Elizabethan Religious Settlement1559–1563 CE Lady Jane Grey Succession Crisis1553-07-06–1554-02-12 Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Sam Burnell (2 series)

Richard Fitzwarren Tudor Historical in Order

by Sam Burnell 11 books 4.3(10,803)

The Richard Fitzwarren Tudor Historical series, also known as Mercenary for Hire or the Tudor Mystery Trials, follows the fictional brothers Richard and Jack Fitzwarren through the violent political and religious changes of mid-sixteenth-century England. The sequence begins with the Seymour scandal surrounding the young Princess Elizabeth, moves…

Myles Devereux Murder Mysteries in Order

by Sam Burnell 4 books 4.2(1,529)

The Myles Devereux Murder Mysteries follow a wealthy, feared operator in the criminal economy of Tudor London. Devereux controls taverns, brothels, moneylending and protection rackets, but each novel places that power under pressure through murder, commercial rivalry, disappearances or political conspiracy. His methods are rarely lawful and his…

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