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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Thanks! It sounds like I can safely ignore them. It's not as if I'm short of historical mysteries to read.
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In all fairness, I should however also note that, per
SYKM, both the second (
Tyrant of the Mind) and the tenth book (
Covenant with Hell) in Royal's series were finalists for the Left Coast Crime Bruce Alexander Award. And further, Sharon Kay Penman, whose too-short four-book Justin de Quincy series I adore, and whose history-filled Facebook page I check out from time to time, seems to have some esteem for Royal's books.
So the series may have changed - my reaction is based on just the first couple of books...
(And drifting a bit from this immediate discussion, but I have to do it anyway, Sharon has recently hinted on Facebook that another JdQ book might be coming in the future. Double or triple
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