The Quality of Mercy

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Quality of Mercy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Faye Kellerman
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:608
Dimensions(mm): Height 176,Width 110
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
Historical fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780747257622
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Illustrations Map

Publishing Details

Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Imprint Headline Book Publishing
Publication Date 13 November 1997
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

1593: Elizabethan London seethes with political and religious intrigue, while across the sea thousands perish in the flames of the Spanish Inquisition. On the surface Roderigo, the Queen's physician, is a loyal subject of the Crown but secretly he and his family are Jewish conversos, hiding their illegal religion. Rebecca, Roderigo's daughter, is torn between her duty - which includes a loveless marriage to a converso - and her fascination with the heady world of Elizabethan London. Slipping out of her household one night, disguised as a man, Rebecca stumbles into a swordfight with someone equally romantic and heedless: Will Shakespeare, an ambitious young dramatist who, like Rebecca, has secrets to conceal and mysteries to unravel. Together, they embark on an adventure that plunges them into the sinks and stews of Elizabethan England - and into the course of history itself...

Author Biography

Faye Kellerman lives witth her husband, novelist and psychologist Jonathan Kellerman, in Los Angeles.