Set in 16th century England, A Murder of Crows features the dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd. Carey and Dodd are anxious to leave London to head home to Carlisle in the north. However, Carey's powerful father Henry, Lord Hunsdon, wants him to solve the mystery of a badly decomposed corpse from the Thames that has washed up on Her Majesty's Privy Steps.
Dodd meanwhile wants revenge for his mistreatment by the Queen's Vice Chamberlain, Thomas Henneage, but none of the lawyers in London will take the case against such a dangerous man. Until a mysterious young lawyer with a pock-marked face offers to help Dodd, with suspicious eagerness. Sergeant Dodd has to help Carey find the identity of the corpse and who murdered him, while bringing a little taste of the Borders to his dealings with Heneage.
"Wonderful news: Carey and Dodd are back ... the best detective pairing since Holmes and Watson." Sharon Kay Penman
Patricia Finney studied history at Oxford. Her first novel, published when she was 18, won the David Higham Award for Best First Fiction Novel that year. She has written three spy thrillers set in Elizabethan times, four historical crime novels set along the 16th century Anglo-Scottish border, and two contemporary children's books.
Mystery Loves Company bookstore will be selling Ms. Finney's books at a book signing following the program.
www.mysterylovescompany.com
