Saturday, January 16, 2010

A Play of Lords by Margaret Frazer

In this book the political intrigues far and away overwhelmed the mystery. Although the book really brings both medieval London and its characters to life, I felt the mystery was sorely lacking. Instead, the book was much more like an explanation of how Joliffe comes to work for Bishop Beaufort (an allegiance we'll see in A Play of Treachery, I suspect, as well as some of the Dame Frevisse novels like The Bastard's Tale). While the characters are as good as ever, it's just not as exciting for me to read about the theatre troop succeeding, especially since there's no murder (although there is an attack) to tie them down.

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