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G.J. Williams is the author of The Conjurer’s Apprentice, the first in the Tudor Rose Murders series.

Set in 1555, when the England of Bloody Mary holds its breath awaiting a prince who will never be born, the battered body of a young boy is pulled from the Thames. But he is no ordinary boy. He is the servant of William Cecil, protector of Princess Elizabeth, the queen’s sister and peoples’ favourite.

The body bears symbolic messages and a letter which implicates Elizabeth in a plot which will send her to her death, ending the Tudor dynasty and leaving England in the grip of Spain. More bodies will follow, each symbolically killed to give a message. The killer is known as ‘The Shepherd’ and moves unseen between the splendour of Court and the stews of London.

Margaretta Morgan, secret apprentice to Dr John Dee, the Arch Conjurer of England, is summoned to use her strange skills. Her power and his brilliance of mind will meld to find the killer and Elizabeth’s enemy. But can they find the strange ‘shepherd’ before Elizabeth is accused?