The Saracen's Mark: The CWA nominated Elizabethan crime series

By S. W. Perry

From the CWA Historical Dagger Award-nominated author of The Angel's Mark in 2019 and The Serpent's Mark in 2020

Betrayal has many guises...

London, 1593: Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby - reluctant spy and maverick physician - and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a life on Bankside. But in London there is always a plot afoot...
Robert Cecil, the Queen's spymaster, once again recruits Nicholas to embark on a dangerous undercover mission that will take him to the back alleys of Marrakech in search of a missing informer. However, while Nicholas hunts for the truth across the seas, plague returns once more to London - ravaging the streets and threatening those dearest to him.
Can Bianca and Nicholas' budding relationship weather the threats of pestilence and conspiracy? And will Nicholas survive the dangers of his mission in a hostile city to return safely home?
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Praise for The Jackdaw Mysteries, a CWA Dagger finalist series
'S. W. Perry is one of the best' The Times
'No-one is better than S. W. Perry at leading us through the squalid streets of London in the sixteenth century' Andrew Swanston

'S. W. Perry's ingeniously plotted novels have become my favourite historical crime series' S. G. MacLean

• Language: English
• Publisher: Corvus
• Release date: Apr 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781786498984

Reviews for The Saracen's Mark

[bookworm842 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Action Packed Adventure!! Everything about this book drew me in...the beautiful cover, the historical concept, the characters and the conspiracies. Everything just flowed seamlessly.My love for historical fiction is growing rapidly and it's all thanks to authors like S.W. Perry who really do their research and portrait their knowledge within their writing. Filled with action from the go, I found this book really hard to put down whilst the descriptive writing really pulls you in further, you can easily imagine yourself in the setting, whether it be the colourful streets of Marrakesh or the plagued streets of London.Although I haven't read the previous two books, I found it was easy to fall in to this book and get a good understanding of who the main characters are and an insight into their previous dealings. The characters worked well together and I will definitely be buying the other books in this series. Thankyou Corvus Publishers and Readers First for my copy in exchange for an honest review.