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One thing I've noticed, with irritation, is that Kellerman loses no opportunity to drop in some comments about Judaism or Jews, and she positively gushes if she has an opportunity to use Hebrew! Strangely, her husband (presumably as committed a Jew) makes far less of this in his by far superior writings. Faye Kellerman has a chip on her shoulder about being Jewish, and I can't tell from her writing is she's a proseletyser or and apologist; whichever, it's damned annoying and gets in the way of the plot.
And yet, here we are in Tudor England and Kellerman finds an excuse to make Jewishness a central theme of this story, along with a highly unlikely love affair with William Shakespeare.
Her Jewish hero, captured, is put to the torture; yet Kellerman seems to have little knowledge of the Statutes dating from Edward IVth's time regarding use of torture (for example an individual may only be tortured twice, except by Royal preprogative, and even then only if "high crimes against the State are suspected"), or that only two devices were in use; the rack and the manacle. She happily adds thumscrews, body-crushing cages, and al manner of things which were in use in Spain by the Inquisition.
Her description of Shakespeare's trip to the north was spoiled, because whilst Hemsdale is a good Derbyshire/Yorkshire name and a possibility, the presence of red sanstone in that area is not, for it's overlaid by granite and limestone pavement.
Altogther too many factual errors in this over-long and over-rated book. Mrs Kellerman REALLY sgould take a close look at her husband's novels, for they are superior in every way.
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