After a successful career in national newspapers, Rory Clements now lives with his family in a seventeenth-century farmhouse in Norfolk and writes full time. The six bestselling novels in his acclaimed John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers, Martyr , Revenger , Prince , Traitor , The Heretics and The Queen's Man, follow Elizabeth's Intelligencer, John Shakespeare, brother to the playwright William, through the dark underworld of Tudor England as he unmasks the traitors and conspirators who plot against the Queen. The seventh John Shakespeare novel, Holy Spy , is due to be published in February 2015. Rory Clements won the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award for Revenger , and has been shortlisted for CWA Awards for Martyr and Prince . A TV series is currently in development. When not immersing himself in the Elizabethan world, Rory enjoys village life and a game of tennis with friends. He is married to the artist Naomi Clements-Wright. You can find out more about Rory, his writing and the world of John Shakespeare on his website www.

roryclements.com and at www.hodder.co.uk.