Sacrilege, S.J. Parris

Renegade philosopher monk Giordano Bruno (Heresy, Prophecy) returns for a third outing. A hooded figure is following Bruno around London and when he confronts this stalker he is pleasantly shocked to find that it is Sophia Underhill-the disgraced daughter of an Oxford fellow.

Sophia is accused of murder in Canterbury and Bruno-who still carries a torch for her-agrees to help clear her name. On his arrival he discovers that the Queen’s enemies are well entrenched here and Sophia’s husband may have been involved in a cult that reveres the bones of St Thomas a Beckett. Soon Bruno is fighting for his life, and he can’t put his faith in anything especially the English justice system.