The book to open the series was Heresy (Harper, 2010, ISBN 978-0007317707), which introduces us to an unexpected central character. So, let’s back track a bit and look at the books in their sequence. Parris’ work fits neatly into this pattern, and by June 2014, her central character, Giordano Bruno has been on four adventures with a fairly heavy hint of a fifth installment set in Paris woven into the end of the latest book in the series, Treachery. So, series that establish a central character who is then followed through a number of adventures, which each installment building on and deepening the character of the central protagonist are part and parcel of this genre. Sansom, creator of Elizabethan sleuth Matthew Shardlake (with a 6th book, Lamentation, scheduled for publication for Autumn 2014). Parris, the pseudonym for Stephanie Merrit, is writing in the fairly crowded market of the historical/religious murder mystery, which brings with it both a potentially very loyal group of readers, or a series of comparisons to such writers as C.J.
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