He stumbles from incident to incident, working out who to believe and who to trust. His lack of foreknowledge gives him a clear vision of factual events and the awkward questions to ask, but his ignorance of the incestuous and competitive city’s petty squabbles, hidden feuds and flirtations puts him in the path of danger. When the murders begin, Bruno’s position as an outsider at Lincoln College is both an advantage and disadvantage. This second mission is the one, I suspect, that will continue beyond this book and through the whole series.
The second is to find a heretical text, stolen long ago but rumoured to be in England, which states that the earth revolves around the sun. The first, along with Sidney, is to expose a catholic conspiracy in the university city. Accompanied by his friend, courtier poet and secret spy, Sir Philip Sidney, Bruno has two secret missions. Meanwhile, catholics continue to worship in secret.įormer Italian monk turned heretic and philosopher Bruno rides out of London on a horse borrowed from the French ambassador, to meet with a royal party bound for Oxford.
Set in 1583, this is the English Reformation of Queen Elizabeth I and her spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, as they steer the country from catholicism to protestantism. Including touches such as secret messages written in orange juice, ciphers and hidden codes, Heresy is the introduction to the Giordano Bruno series of historical mysteries by SJ Parris.
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