Phil Rickman’s second historical mystery, THE HERESY OF DR DEE, has just gone to No. 1 in Historical Fiction on Amazon！

The previous book THE BONES OF AVALON was also a Kindle No. 1 bestseller, and has sold over 50,000 copies here in theUK; it also sold in eight countries.

The new Dr Dee mystery from Phil Rickman, sequel to the Amazon No.1 bestseller THE BONES OF AVALON.

At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumour shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth.

Did Dudley’s wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall in a deserted house, or was it a calculated murder? Even Dr John Dee, astrologer royal, adviser on the Hidden and one ofDudley’s oldest friends, is uncertain.

Already depressed by his meagre income, the taint of sorcery and the loss of his first love, the bookishDeeis now becoming afraid that, for him, the veils of perception will never lift. Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his family’s old home on the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited with tuning the mind to higher realms.

With Dee goes Robert Dudley, considered the most hated man inEngland. They travel with the entourage of a London judge sent to try a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy dating back to the Battle of Brynglas, in which close to a thousand Englishmen died at the hands of the Welsh. After the battle, many of the bodies were, according to legend, obscenely mutilated. Now, on the same haunted hill, another dead man has been found, similarly slashed.

Devious politics, small-town corruption, twisted religion and a brooding superstition leave John Dee isolated in the land of his father.

And then a vicious trap is sprung.

A thrilling new historical mystery from Phil Rickman, author of the acclaimed Merrily Watkins series. THE BONES OF AVALON was an Amazon No.1 bestseller, and rights sold around the world.

Praise for Phil Rickman:

“A fabulously murky tale, full of dark detail, gruesome violence and twisting plotlines as Dr Dee negotiates a perilous line between the natural and supernatural, truth and lies, light and darkness” –Daily Mail
‘Great... ritual murder, necromancy, witchcraft - it’s all here.’– Guardian

‘Tudor thrillers are thick on the ground nowadays, but this one is rather special.Awonderfully assured leap into the sixteenth century.’ –Spectator

‘Chills, thrills and satisfies. A fabulous read.’ –The Huffington Post

‘Grows through the bones of history like a deadly nightshade.’– Diana Gabaldon

‘Wonderful. No-one writes better of the shadow frontier than Phil Rickman.’ –Bernard Cornwell