The Road to Murder

Tom Walsingham is an impoverished cousin of Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster. His job is a courier, travelling between France and England with diplomatic messages. Charged with escorting a glovemaker to Paris, Walsingham and his companions are beset by a difficult journey in which the glover is murdered. Desperate to get back to London to tall Walsingham of a plot he feels he has uncovered, Tom is thwarted at every turn.
This is a promising start to a series, the character of Tom Walsingham is a real life one but his adventures are complete fiction. The events are straightforward but the plot is a little confusing and complex, however it is believable in the context. The sense of time and place is nicely imagined and the show more whole is an undemanding but enjoyable read. show less