Thanks for that. I’ll look out for Gabbadon and let you know what I think.
Don’t give up on Sansome’s Shardlake series. Dark Fire is much better than Dissolution. For one thing, Dissolution is a typical first novel - it lacks finesse and the character development is clumsy, and, for another, Shardlake’s annoying sidekick is replaced. I did history in college (still doing history in college –trying to finish a PhD before it finishes me) and I studied Tudor Ireland, so that’s possibly why I like the series. And since Sansom is an historian turned lawyer, he keeps to the first rule – write about what you know.
Mrs SkStu certainly likes her whodunnits bloody... she might like to dip into Susanna Gregory’s Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles. Nowt bloodier than a Cambridge doctor-cum-sleuth during the Black Death!
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