Welcome to Day 2 of the SECRETS, SPIES &
SHERLOCK BLOG TOUR, featuring two exciting new middle grade mystery
series: Sherlock, Lupin
& Me: The Dark Lady by Irene Adler and Secrets & Spies:
Treason by Jo Macauley. Each stop on the 2-week tour will feature fun
posts and a chance to win a set of finished copies of the books! Today’s post
features Treason
by Jo Macauley.
Fact
and Fiction in Treason
Treason is set during a particularly
tumultuous time in English history, after civil wars had led to the beheading
of Charles I, allowing the militant Puritan Oliver Cromwell to rule the country
for 18 years before Charles II was restored to the throne. In the first year of
the Restoration, Cromwell was posthumously convicted of treason, disinterred,
hanged and beheaded. Since then his head has passed from hand to hand, and to
this day only a handful of people in the world know where it is. In
Treason, Beth Johnson, a young actress and spy, must race
against the clock in this climate of fear and bloodlust to prevent the
assassination of the newly reinstated
King.