A Deadly Prank
(2026)(The first book in the Thomas Middleton Mystery series)
A novel by Coirle Mooney
Join Thomas Middleton in a thrilling new mystery series! For fans of S J Parris, Andrew Taylor, S W Perry and Andrew Swanston.
Blood will have blood…
Elizabethan England
Thomas Middleton falls in love with the theatre scene when he is taken to see his first play, Christopher’s Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, at fifteen.
After an education in Oxford, Tom returns to Southwark, where he is introduced to the most prominent playwrights in London.
And William Shakespeare himself takes Tom under his wing, encouraging Tom’s passion for writing.
But tragedy strikes when a member of Tom’s household is murdered, and his mother becomes the chief suspect.
Tom is forced to put his dreams on hold and return home to help clear his mother’s name.
His investigation leads him through London’s dark underworld of pimps and prostitutes, corrupt constables and ambitious courtiers as he desperately seeks the truth.
Can Tom find the real killer? Will he be able to save his mother from the gallows?
And will he find a way back to the theatre…?
A DEADLY PRANK is the first book in the Thomas Middleton Mysteries series. It is a thrilling historical espionage adventure set in Elizabethan London, featuring William Shakespeare and the other major playwrights of the era.
Genre: Historical
Blood will have blood…
Elizabethan England
Thomas Middleton falls in love with the theatre scene when he is taken to see his first play, Christopher’s Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, at fifteen.
After an education in Oxford, Tom returns to Southwark, where he is introduced to the most prominent playwrights in London.
And William Shakespeare himself takes Tom under his wing, encouraging Tom’s passion for writing.
But tragedy strikes when a member of Tom’s household is murdered, and his mother becomes the chief suspect.
Tom is forced to put his dreams on hold and return home to help clear his mother’s name.
His investigation leads him through London’s dark underworld of pimps and prostitutes, corrupt constables and ambitious courtiers as he desperately seeks the truth.
Can Tom find the real killer? Will he be able to save his mother from the gallows?
And will he find a way back to the theatre…?
A DEADLY PRANK is the first book in the Thomas Middleton Mysteries series. It is a thrilling historical espionage adventure set in Elizabethan London, featuring William Shakespeare and the other major playwrights of the era.
Genre: Historical