Matter of Blood: Spy-craft and treachery in Elizabethan England

The Walsinghams find themselves in trouble in the fallout of the Babington Plot! For fans of Rory Clements, S J Parris, S W Perry and Andrew Taylor.

Mary Queen of Scots may be dead but support for the Catholic claim is still alive...

London, 1588

Mary Stuart, the deposed Queen of Scots, polestar of all Catholic intriguers, and a life-long danger to England has met the executioner's axe.

But many of her supporters still hold influential positions in Paris and her death has not endeared England to the French.

Unbeknownst to the Queen of England, her spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, had more than a little to do with manipulating her into finally condemning her cousin.

And now a letter has been leaked exposing Walsingham's secret to the Queen's ambassador in Paris, Sir Edward Stafford.

There is no love lost between Stafford and Walsingham and the ambassador will happily expose his nemesis, no matter the consequences for England.

Walsingham instructs his cousin Tom to travel to Paris to quell the rumours and discover Stafford's intentions. But then a troublesome Catholic leader, a kinsman of Stafford's, is suspected to have been poisoned, and Tom finds himself embroiled in another mystery.

Can Tom win the trust of Stafford? Will he save his cousin's reputation?

Or will the Parisians seek revenge on this hapless Englishman...?

A MATTER OF BLOOD is a page-turning espionage adventure thriller set during the Elizabethan era in Tudor England. It is the sixth book in The Tom Walsingham Mysteries series.

THE TOM WALSINGHAM MYSTERY SERIES:
Book One: The Road to Murder
Book Two: A Treasonous Path
Book Three: Death In Rheims
Book Four: A Deadly Complot
Book Five: A Snare of Deceit
Book Six: A Matter of Blood
Book Seven: The Man From Morocco
Book Eight: Death At Home