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A Season of Knives
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In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier fleeing his creditors, his father's wrath, and the close scrutiny of his Queen, came north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March. The presence of his true love, the married Elizabeth Widdrington, was no mere coincidence. Before long, Sir Robert was up to his ruff in horse rustling and treason (A Famine of Horses), but he sorted that out with dispatch.
Now he's in trouble again. The rowdy Grahams plan to kidnap Elizabeth as she journeys home to her husband. While Sir Robert storms out to stop them, someone murders the man he has just sacked from his post of paymaster to the Carlisle garrison. When Sir Robert returns, he finds his servant Barnabus slung into the castle dungeon, accused of the crime, and his arch enemy Sir Richard Lowther scheming to have Carey arrested for masterminding the murder...
When even faithful Sergeant Dodd is prepared to believe he did it, the courtier finds his hands full – while ruin stares him in the face – as he juggles the murder inquiry and untangles a skein of love and greed that reminds him most uncomfortably of how carefully he must conceal his love for Elizabeth.
Now he's in trouble again. The rowdy Grahams plan to kidnap Elizabeth as she journeys home to her husband. While Sir Robert storms out to stop them, someone murders the man he has just sacked from his post of paymaster to the Carlisle garrison. When Sir Robert returns, he finds his servant Barnabus slung into the castle dungeon, accused of the crime, and his arch enemy Sir Richard Lowther scheming to have Carey arrested for masterminding the murder...
When even faithful Sergeant Dodd is prepared to believe he did it, the courtier finds his hands full – while ruin stares him in the face – as he juggles the murder inquiry and untangles a skein of love and greed that reminds him most uncomfortably of how carefully he must conceal his love for Elizabeth.
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P.F. Chisholm
P.F. Chisholm is an author and journalist. She is a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in History. Her first novel, A Shadow of Gulls, published when she was eighteen, won the David Higham Award for Best First Novel. patriciafinney.com
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed the first novel in this series of historical mysteries set in the Scots borderlands during the reign of Elizabeth I. The second one is - happily - just as good, with well drawn characters, lots of interesting historical detail and a clever whodunit at the center.
One of the great things about this series so far is that the history is more than scenery and decoration. Important plot points come out of the conditions of the place and the time. For example there is a wonderful scene in this one where Jenny Dodd impatiently tells the Deputy Warden only a man would imagine that any woman in her right mind would knife someone in her own bed. As any goodwife would tell you, that would just cause too much laundry to be contemplated!
Well think about it! You have to haul the water bucket by bucket from the well down at the end of the street, heat it on the hearth, drag it out into the yard, shave soap into it, scrub and rinse and wring and hang yards and yards and yards of heavy cloth. Its a whole day of back breaking work, and good luck hiding from you neighbors that you are washing blood out of your sheets.
Fun stuff here and I'm looking forward to the next in the series. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book 2 continues in the vein of excellence that was foretold by P. F. Chisholm initial Sir Robert Carey novel. Really evil,continuing villains from the the border marches which seems to spawn them under every heather bush and bonnet.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is book 2 of the Sir Robert Carey mysteries. Same wonderful characters that we met in book one. In this novel Carey's enemy/rival tries to frame him for a murder.