Let Slip the Dogs - Anna Castle

Written by Anna Castle
Read by Philip Battley
Format: MP3
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Unabridged

Let Slip the Dogs
A Francis Bacon Mystery
By: Anna Castle
Narrated by: Philip Battley
Series: Francis Bacon Mystery, Book 5
Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 26-04-2021
Language: English
Publisher: Anna Castle

Secret trysts. Daring dalliances. And a body in the orchard.

It’s midsummer, 1591, at Richmond Palace, and love is in the air. Gallant courtiers sport with great ladies while Tom and Trumpet bring their long-laid plans to fruition at last. Everybody’s doing it - even Francis Bacon enjoys a private liaison with the secretary to the new French ambassador. But the Queen loathes scandal and will punish anyone rash enough to get caught.

Still, it’s all in a summer day until a young man is found dead. He had few talents beyond a keen nose for gossip and was doubtless murdered to protect a secret. But what sort - romantic, or political? They carried different penalties: banishment from court or a traitor’s death. Either way, worth killing to protect.

Bacon wants nothing more than to leave things alone. He has no position and no patron; in fact, he’s being discouraged from investigating. But can he live with himself if another innocent person dies?

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