Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his father John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologian and master spy and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary.Įach one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. 'A fictional tour de force which combines erudition with mystery' PD James
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