The Angel's Mark

Reviews

'A gorgeous book – rich, intelligent and dark in equal measure ... Historical fiction at its most sumptuous.' 'Wonderful! Beautiful writing, and Perry's Elizabethan London is so skilfully evoked, so real that one can almost smell it.' 'The Angel's Mark has the pace of a thriller ... S.W. Perry is a welcome addition to the ranks of historical crime novelists.' 'An impressively dramatic and gripping debut novel ... I predict that we will be seeing much more of Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy.' 'Narrator Kris Dyer's skilled delivery makes Elizabethan London – the privileged few, vast destitute, and Catholic heretics – come alive in a fact-based story. Listeners will meet Nicholas Shelby, a grieving physician who has taken to drink after the death of his wife and baby. After encountering a poor, crippled child who appears to have been murdered, Dyer's unwavering and appealing Shelby tries and fails to interest the authorities in his suspicion. He finds allies in apothecary Bianca Merton and wealthy Catholic John Lumley – both fascinating and expertly presented – who risk everything to help him. A shadow of doubt introduced early adds to the tension, while Dyer renders the atmosphere well that listeners can picture and even almost smell the surroundings.' Narrator Kris Dyer's skilled delivery makes Elizabethan London--the privileged few, vast destitute, and Catholic heretics--come alive in a fact-based story. Listeners will meet Nicholas Shelby, a grieving physician who has taken to drink after the death of his wife and baby. After encountering a poor, crippled child who appears to have been murdered, Dyer's unwavering and appealing Shelby tries and fails to interest the authorities in his suspicion. He finds allies in apothecary Bianca Merton and wealthy Catholic John Lumley--both fascinating and expertly presented--who risk everything to help him. A shadow of doubt introduced early adds to the tension, while Dyer renders the atmosphere well that listeners can picture and even almost smell the surroundings. Expand reviews