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An exorcism … a stress … a stealthy killer … What else can fail?Steve Shakespeare—intrepid personal investigator and sibling into a growing young playwright in Elizabethan London—is contacted by a ruined Jesuit priest having an unusual proposal: the Daddy is haunted by the recollection of Thomasyn Jade, a teen-age woman put through raw exorcism rituals ten years past. He desires Shakespeare to track her down and provide reparations for her treatment.As Shakespeare starts his analysis, a plan to assassinate the King is underway, and rumors of the papist conspiracy start whirling from Seville. And when, 1 by 1, Shakespeare’s reliable agents are horribly killed, all hints be seemingly from the mystical Thomasyn Jade …Heart-beating and full of interesting historical detail, The Heretics is just a thriller to rival the very best of D. T. Alex and Sansom Grecian.