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|reviewer=Sue Magee
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|pages=416
|publisher=Headline Review
|date=August 2010
|isbn=978-0755356010
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In London, in December 1563, the herald William Harley (known to everyone as Clarenceux) had no intention of becoming involved in one of the many Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth, but he's unwittingly drawn into one when his friend and fellow Catholic, Henry Machyn, gave gives him a chronicle, telling him that it hid hides a secret which could cost Machyn his life. Clarenceux was sceptical until he was visited by Francis Walsingham's brutal enforcers and within a matter of a few hours he turns from a law-abiding citizen into a man on the run in search of clues which will tell him why the chronicle is so important.
If your heart sank at the thought of yet another book where a man is hounded about the countryside in search of cryptic clues then rest easy. This is ''not'' the '' da Vinci Code'' in doublet and hose. To begin with 'James Forrester' is the pen name of author and historian [[:Category:Ian Mortimer|Ian Mortimer]], one of our foremost writers on medieval England. We've been delighted to review several of his non-fiction books here on Bookbag and ''Sacred Treason'' is rich with the sort of background which comes from knowledge rather than research. You'll smell the streets of London and you'll recoil from the brutality that was a part of everyday life.
If this period appeals to you then we can recommend anything by [[:Category:C J Sansom|C J Sansom]]. From a century earlier you might like to try [[Virgin Widow by Anne O'Brien]].
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