Edward Rutherfurd Reviews Heresy Edward Rutherfurdwas born in Salisbury, England, and educated at Cambridge University and Stanford University in California. He is the bestselling author ofSarum,Russka,London,The Forest, and the companion novels,The Princes of IrelandandThe Rebels of Ireland. His most recent novel,New York, was published in 2009. Read Rutherfurd's guest review ofHeresy: 
With Heresy, S.J. Parris has constructed a splendid, unputdownable whodunnit.
In 1583, England was approaching one of the greatest crises in its history. Queen Elizabeth, excommunicated by the Pope for her refusal to return the Church of England to Rome, was under threat from all the Catholic powers. Her spymaster Francis Walsingham had his own army of informers searching for conspiracies against the English crown. Everyone was on the lookout for trouble.
Yet in May of that year, amongst the quiet and dreaming spires of Oxford University, a public debate took place that was nothing short of revolutionary.
On one side, John Underhill, an unpopular figure, forced upon Lincoln College as their Rector by his powerful patron the Earl of Leicester. On the other, Giordano Bruno, a wandering Italian scholar-monk, in trouble with the Inquisition, and in the story (and probably in fact) serving Walsingham as an anti-Catholic informer.
But what is truly amazing about Bruno is that he believed not like Copernicus and Galileo that the Sun and not the Earth was the center of the universe, but ...
