‘Red Ned Tudor’ Series by Gregory House (1-5)
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Overview: Come with Gregory House, an Australian author, and visit Henry VIII’s Merrie England where politics, plots and murder are the currency of the realm!
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Liberties Of London (Book 01)
A Tudor Period Mystery set in Henry VIII’s England
Red Ned Tudor Mysteries, Apprentice Lawyer and Aspiring Rogue
All Ned Bedwell wants for Christmas is a chance to fatten his lean purse. As a lowly apprentice lawyer in Tudor London, his chances of this happening aren’t good – that is until he hits upon the plan of hosting his own Christmas Revels for his fellow clerks at the Inns of Court. Feasting, drinking, dicing, and pretty girls playing sweet music – it couldn’t be better, and with the help of his friend, Rob Black, profitable too! What could possibly go wrong? Rob’s redoubtable sister, Meg, has plans of her own for Ned. Instead he finds himself the escort and chaperone to Walter Dellingham, a young man of Lutheran persuasion, conducting him on a tour of London’s best ‘reformist’ sites, all the while led by a determined Meg Black. Revels or responsibility – how will Ned enjoy the fruits of his labours now? An amusing romp through the low life of Tudor England.
The Fetter Lane Fleece (Book 1.5)
What happens when you mix a band of carousing revellers, a barrel of fine Rhenish wine and a kidnapped clerk?
Ned Bedwell’s Christmas Revels are the talk of the Inns of Court in the Tudor London of 1529 and he basks in the regard and fattened purse it has brought him. His former problems are banished, Meg Black safely distracted with her night schools for heretics while his problematic charge, Walter Dellingham, is securely muzzled between the gaming table and the bed. Ned can now look forward to a week of festivities. Or maybe not. A friend’s urgent demand has him chancing the Liberties once more in an attempt to foil the ploys of rogues at the Wool’s Fleece. A cozener’s play, a surfeit of fine brandy and a beguiling temptress make this an adventure Ned may live to regret.
The Queen’s Oranges (Book 02)
Tudor business is often risky, but when mixed with both religious dispute and politics it can be deadly.
Summer 1530 is a boom season for London’s merchants, as lords and gentry pour into the city for the signing of Great Petition to the Pope, Henry VIII’s latest effort to secure a divorce. What do the unnatural murders of two German merchants, a missing official from the Tower of London, and a sudden surfeit of oranges have to do with Ned and more importantly what do they have to do with one another?
Ned Bedwell, reluctant pursuivant to Councillor Cromwell, once more finds himself encumbered with yet another thankless task, and only seven days to sort this whole mess out, as he strives to help his friends and protect his investments.
Grasping venal officials, treasonous plots, heretical smuggling, and the politics of the King’s annulment, as well as a city full of friars preaching hell fire and damnation–what else does a good Tudor lad need?
The Cardinal’s Angels (Book 03)
It’s the year 1529 in Merry England, though for some like Red Ned Bedwell apprentice lawyer and aspiring rogue, the situation is not so happy. After a tavern brawl he’s suspected of slaying a servant of Cardinal Wolsey, the Lord Chancellor, and after His Sovereign Majesty Henry VIII, the most powerful man in England. To avoid a charge of treason Ned has to search out the real culprits and uncover their motives for murder. That’s if he can remember the affray. His only assistance, if it can be called that, are some very reluctant allies—Meg Black, an unfriendly and secretive apprentice apothecary, her more amiable brother Rob, and their scowling retainer, the aptly named Gruesome Roger. As Ned and his small company scurry through the darker paths of Tudor London he finds that other more ruthless hunters are also on the search for secrets.
What could be worth so much to the noble factions of the Royal Court? Is it the mystery of the Cardinal’s Angels, or is it something entirely more dangerous?
A Comfit Of Rogues (Book 04)
Ned has tweaked the noses of the Masters of Mischief and Roguery in the City and Liberties of London once too often. Putting aside their rivalry they’ve signed a compact to ensure the removal of this meddlesome apprentice lawyer and aspiring rogue. So can Ned count on anyone in the London Underworld for support, or is the reward of five gold angels in coin too much temptation for treachery? Plots, plunder and the occasional hobby horse abound, in Tudor London this Misrule.
The Lord Of Misrule (Book 05)
Yuletide and the Twelve days of Christmas are a time of celebration in the Merrie England of Henry VIII, full of feasting and good company as the hard hand of winter closes in on London. For Red Ned Bedwell, apprentice lawyer and aspiring rogue, the festive season represents an opportunity for revels and wealth too good to pass up. However in all his clever plans Ned hasn’t counted on the machinations of Meg Black, or the cunning cosenage of her erstwhile charge Walter Dellingham. Add in a drunken feat of gallant daring do to rescue a kidnapped printer’s clerk in the heart of the Liberties followed by a bare arsed chase in a snow storm and thus you gain a glimpse of some of Ned’s trials. For Yuletide is the reign of The Lord of Misrule, and during this topsy turvey time rogues, roisters and beggars enact their plots of mischief and revenge.
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