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The Locksmith's Daughter
- Narrated by: Karen Brooks
- Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
What if the key to your heart lies in your enemy's hands?
In a world where no one can be trusted and secrets are currency, one woman stands without fear.
Mallory Bright is the only daughter of London's master locksmith. For her there is no lock too elaborate, no secret too well kept. Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster and protector of Queen Elizabeth - the last of the Tudor monarchs - and her realm, is quick to realise Mallory's talent and draws her into his world of intrigue, danger and deception. With her by his side, no scheme in England or abroad is safe from discovery, no plot secure.
But Mallory's loyalty wavers when she witnesses the execution of three Jesuit priests, a punishment that doesn't fit their crime. When Mallory discovers the identity of a Catholic spy and a conspiracy that threatens the kingdom, she has to make a choice - between her country and her heart.
Mallory, however, carries her own dark secrets and is about to learn those being kept from her - secrets that could destroy those she loves.
Once Sir Francis' greatest asset, Mallory is fast becoming his worst threat...and everyone knows there's only one way Sir Francis deals with those.
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- Judith O'Doherty
- 19-09-2018
Unstoppable
Loved this book the story was great the way it was interleaved with factual history.
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- KAREN CHALLENGER
- 26-07-2022
love love this story
my sister Donna put me onto this book and author, this book kept me intrigued and also led to me researching some of the characters. I loved the intertwined truth's and tales ... a story that I wished would just never end. Highly recommend I felt as though I was a part of this story whilst listening. you won't regret it.
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- ollie
- 02-05-2020
If you love Mills and Boon...
I'm struggling to finish this disappointingly melodramatic historical spy story, with its constant clichés and artificial attempts at authentic period language. Full of darkly mysterious gentlemen ravishing ladies who spend all their time worrying ineffectually about their reputations, there's little to tempt me to persevere. Perhaps I ought to have looked into it further before starting, but somehow I was expecting something less heavy-handed, with humour and subtlety. Worst of all, the author herself elected to narrate the story, when she really shouldn't have: she puts the stress in the wrong places, says St Pancreas instead of St Pancras (yes, really), grossly mispronounces the frequent Italian words, and does cringeworthy things like feigning sobs when reading about a character who is supposed to be crying (not only when acting out the character's actual words). All this makes for quite a distraction from the book itself. Consider yourselves warned fellow listeners.
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