The Widows Guild

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. Francis Bacon is helping to purge the Catholics from England, while at the same time, some of his law students get into deep, deep, trouble. It seems one of them is a girl, disguising herself as a man. She engineers a wedding to an old geezer, and plans to have......more

Another great entry in the series. After two books of being in Oxford investigating religious extremists trying to overthrow the country, Tom Clarady is out in London free to act on his own. And he gets arrested and jailed in Newgate almost immediately. "Trumpet" aka Alice marries a very old man and......more

Francis Bacon is appointed to a disturbing and unwelcome job, as a member of a commission involved in the interrogation of Catholics. This is regarded as service to his country, with Catholic Spain being England’s enemy and religion and politics being intertwined. Meanwhile, Lady Alice Trumpington,......more

I really enjoyed this installment in the Francis Bacon series. Trumpet has chosen a husband, a sickly, older man; she has hopes of giving him a son and heir, and then becoming a young widow. However, her plan requires special cooperation from Tom: he will be the biological father of her children. Sh......more