Death by Disputation

Name: Death by Disputation
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Anna Castle
ISBN: 9780991602575

Author: Anna Castle

Series: A Francis Bacon Mystery #2

Narrator: Joel Froomkin

Unabridged: 11 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Anna Castle

Published: 03/02/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

Thomas Clarady risks his life, his eternal soul — and his chastity!Tom is recruited to spy on a group of radical Puritans at Cambridge University with Francis Bacon as his spymaster -- his tutor in tradecraft and politics. Their commission gets off to a deadly start when Tom finds his chief informant hanging from the roof beams. Now he has to catch a murderer as well as a seditioner. His first suspect is the volatile poet Christopher Marlowe, who keeps turning up in the middle of Tom's investigations.Dogged by unreliable assistants, chased by lusty women, and harangued daily by the exacting Bacon, Tom risks his heart and soul to stop the villains and win his reward.First In Category for the 2015 Chaucer Awards Elizabethan/Tudor period.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bandit

I don’t normally go for the series, but this just came up as a freebie and I didn’t remember hating the first one, so sure why not. Historical mysteries are usually a good twofer, because even if the mystery leaves you indifferent, there’s still a historical aspect to enjoy. I suppose that was the c......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

Book 2, like the rest of the Francis Bacon series, set during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Whereas in book 1 Tom was looking for Catholic conspirators, in this one he is now trying to find radical Protestants who are disturbing the status quo and causing dissension in the Church of England. In ad......more

Goodreads review by edifanob

First book in 2015 and it has been a good one. Author Anna Castle has been so kind to provide me a digital copy of Death by Disputation (digital 2014) [ Kindle Edition ASIN: B00RC56VCW] which is the second book in her new Francis Bacon Murder Mystery Series. The Delivery The 303 pages are divided into......more

Goodreads review by Amber

This second book in the Francis Bacon mystery series is a strong as the first. At times bawdy and rowdy, at times thought-provoking, it centers around outgoing and adventurous Thomas Clarady, student and first-time spy, but the scholarly Bacon plays a key role as Tom’s spymaster. The contrast in the......more