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Historical person
1527–1609
John Dee was an English mathematician, astrologer, adviser and scholar in the Elizabethan period. His interests in navigation, imperial planning, alchemy and angelic communication place him at the intersection of science, magic and statecraft.
In S. J. Parris’s Prophecy, his inquiries bring him into contact with John Dee and expose a scheme in which prophecy is being used to frighten, recruit and manipulate those already expecting the queen’s fall. In Rory Clements’s Traitor, Spanish agents seek both the device and the men who understand it: the operative William Ivory and its inventor, the mathematician and astrologer John Dee.
Series
The John Shakespeare series follows an Elizabethan intelligencer working first for Francis Walsingham and later Robert Cecil. Murder investigations become inseparable from Catholic conspiracies, war with Spain, court faction and the developing machinery of state surveillance. Set between 1582 and the mid-1590s, the novels move through London, recusant…
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The Giordano Bruno novels follow the historical Italian philosopher through a fictional career as investigator and intelligence agent. Beginning with his youth in Dominican Naples and continuing through exile in Elizabethan England, France and Prague, the series combines murder mysteries with Reformation conflict, court politics, espionage and Renaissance…
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