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Giordano Bruno Thriller Series Books 1-3: Heresy, Prophecy, Sacrilege
S. J. Parris
Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and The Name of the Rose, three Sunday Times bestselling historical thrillers featuring Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy.HERESY: Oxford, 1583. A place of learning, and of murderous schemes. The Queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, recruits Giordano Bruno, a radical thinker fleeing the Inquisition, to expose a Catholic conspiracy at Oxford University. When a series of brutal murders ruptures close-knit college life, Bruno realizes that the Tudor throne itself is at stake…PROPHECY: London, 1583. As Mary Stuart’s supporters scheme to usurp the rightful monarch, a young maid of honour is murdered in Queen Elizabeth’s court, occult symbols carved into her flesh. When maverick agent Giordano Bruno is instructed to infiltrate the plotters, he must use all his cunning to secure evidence against them before his true identity is exposed…SACRILEGE: Canterbury, 1584. Heretic-turned-spy Giordano Bruno travels to Canterbury to clear the name of the woman he once loved. But when a series of mysterious crimes strike the city, a far bigger puzzle emerges. Bruno’s investigation leads him deep into the shadows of the Cathedral, and to the heart of a sinister and powerful conspiracy…
Giordano Bruno Thriller Series: Books 1-3
S. J. PARRIS
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Table of Contents
Cover (#ucb73ec1c-1724-5d15-84b2-4fca1882b629)
Title Page (#u786206e1-846f-579c-9c75-e180349b7ee9)
Copyright (#udcfeabc8-b966-5bc4-8632-8f3fc3a58193)
Heresy (#u282c39ae-5347-53d5-9d7d-96ef543031a4)
Prophecy (#ubce48868-e2ae-553b-a5a3-0668d13d1917)
Sacrilege (#uc957767d-889c-5c7e-93a1-0482e96792df)
Keep Reading (#u47035f6b-e09e-5cbb-baa0-dbf60155a37f)
About the Author (#ub510d09d-d80f-5622-aa5e-49658e734ad3)
Also by S. J. Parris (#uf9a08f10-3afb-5411-8225-879af119e9f0)
About the Publisher (#u5fd61792-16d4-581a-ab35-f89f7df7743c)
S. J. PARRIS
Heresy
Copyright (#ulink_4ee5c2de-324b-5676-b217-99fc571c4422)
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
Copyright © Stephanie Merritt 2010
Stephanie Merritt asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Cover photographs © Shutterstock
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication
Source ISBN: 9780007317707
Ebook Edition © MARCH 2010 ISBN: 9780007317684
Version: 2016-10-28
Praise for Heresy (#ulink_3de53394-5ce3-54aa-abcb-fe1ac7e8027b)
‘Heresy has everything – intrigue, mystery, excellent history and haunting sense of place. The beginning of a wonderful new detective series’
Kate Mosse (bestselling author of Labyrinth)
‘Fascinating … The period is incredibly vivid and the story utterly gripping. Cadfael can’t hold a candle to this’
Conn Iggulden (bestselling author of Bones of the Hills and The Dangerous Book for Boys)
‘Heresy is a riveting read. Rich in both historical detail and ingenious twists, S. J. Parris has created a character in Giordano Bruno that will endure. A true rival to C. J. Sansom’ Sam Bourne (bestselling author of The Righteous Men)
‘Heresy is a must-read for every fan of historical thrillers. S. J. Parris transports the reader back to an extraordinary time in history by mobilizing fascinating details, suspense, and fully-drawn characters. Giordano Bruno turns out to be that rare hero, charismatic and nuanced enough to impel an encore, and to leave us asking for more from the gifted Parris’
Matthew Pearl (author of The Dante Club)
‘An atmospheric and well-written historical thriller’
Guardian
‘The places and people are vividly described and the solution to this exciting, well-written tale comes as a real surprise’
Literary Review
Table of Contents
Cover (#u282c39ae-5347-53d5-9d7d-96ef543031a4)
Title Page (#u620937ca-30f5-51b5-898a-a76d6602fc12)
Copyright (#u34fffd31-0e7d-5f5e-af58-9b3c3ea322f4)
Praise for Heresy (#u70b8f6a0-b822-560f-9fde-1ff526209d4a)
Prologue: Monastery of San Domenico Maggiore, Naples 1576 (#ue1a67b68-72e1-5191-8a68-9d363263c656)
Part One: London, May 1583 (#ue11fe87b-8f93-5971-8651-54f11dafbc14)
Chapter One (#u18e27a11-b781-5996-842f-f4dd301f4733)
Part Two: Oxford, England, May 1583 (#ue6ec5fdd-4668-550b-b318-2d138deec15b)
Chapter Two (#ub044041a-9d34-5613-95cf-a0c5fee7ddc0)
Chapter Three (#u70a04f10-1bd7-5093-a32b-1bdc8b78cd5e)
Chapter Four (#u5cd06302-8d2c-5956-bc79-f39a300ca101)
Chapter Five (#u86e30534-bda7-534e-ba30-5d7505465abd)
Chapter Six (#ue01238d6-40de-597e-b5bc-7a52097cf087)
Chapter Seven (#u6c81e9dc-6bea-5eb6-8d1c-bf4be1e3c918)
Chapter Eight (#u9b17fb3a-6e38-5a4f-b485-0be2b7b888ff)
Chapter Nine (#u5500b838-3cdb-5fc7-94f1-cee00cf6e816)
Chapter Ten (#u03e1e342-1168-5969-b5c2-7e6cc4a85407)
Chapter Eleven (#ud35fa1b1-ebc9-5ae8-8169-416672ba59b5)
Chapter Twelve (#u798d64f5-b613-5fc1-8f0a-d6327067804b)
Chapter Thirteen (#u8a094275-78c0-55a7-87cf-737bc3156b7e)
Chapter Fourteen (#u2b251680-ba41-53a6-8e2d-140d811e1a0d)
Chapter Fifteen (#u03bbce59-3824-508e-b9fc-71707a0858aa)
Chapter Sixteen (#u28dd2b52-36ef-5c63-8529-84ddafee24db)
Chapter Seventeen (#u6f15e1e3-01ab-50b5-8186-d4b03cbf624d)
Chapter Eighteen (#u8bcc157f-9b14-562d-91e3-0e15da554bbd)
Chapter Nineteen (#u5bc25152-9789-5fe3-bfc0-e72fda694eb8)
Chapter Twenty (#uafed7050-01a0-579d-ad1d-6cf3b778dc78)
Chapter Twenty-One (#u45849418-e796-5162-87c8-4a478f412bc5)
Chapter Twenty-Two (#u8e35212a-d57a-55af-a354-c7137f22bf1b)
Epilogue: London, July 1583 (#u3d120a74-bbfe-551f-b37f-d9ac0b940835)
Acknowledgements (#ueeeaa534-95da-55d3-8bb6-3aab04bbfb99)
PROLOGUE (#ulink_b1a3b805-92e4-5bbc-819a-d5ff431d27b4)
Monastery of San Domenico Maggiore, Naples 1576 (#ulink_b1a3b805-92e4-5bbc-819a-d5ff431d27b4)
The outer door was thrown open with a crash that resounded along the passage and the floorboards shook with the purposeful marching of several pairs of feet. Inside the small cubicle where I perched on the edge of a wooden bench, taking care not to sit too close to the hole that opened over the cess pit beneath, my little candle flickered in the sudden draught of their entrance, sending wavering shadows growing and shrinking up the stone walls. Allora, I thought, looking up. They have come for me at last.
The footsteps halted outside the cubicle door, to be replaced by the furious hammering of a fist and the abbot’s throaty voice, strained beyond its usual placid tones of diplomacy.
‘Fra Giordano! I order you to come out this instant, with whatever you hold in your hands in plain sight!’
I caught a snigger from one of the monks who accompanied him, swiftly followed by a stern tutting from the abbot, Fra Domenico Vita, and could not help smiling to myself, in spite of the moment. Fra Vita was a man who, in the ordinary course of events, gave the impression that all bodily functions offended him mightily; it would be causing him unprecedented distress to have to apprehend one of his monks in so ignominious a place as this.
‘One moment, Padre, if I may,’ I called, untying my habit to make it look as if I had been using the privy for its proper purpose. I looked at the book in my hand. For a moment I entertained the idea of hiding it somewhere under my habit, but that would be fruitless – I would be searched straight away.
‘Not one moment more, Brother,’ Fra Vita said through the door, a quiet menace creeping into his voice. ‘You have spent more than two hours in the privy tonight, I think that is long enough.’
