Nick Beckett

About The Author

Nick Beckett is the pen name of Niall Boyce. Niall studied medicine at Oxford University and subsequently trained as a psychiatrist. In 2023, he completed a PhD on "dreaming in Renaissance England" at Birkbeck College, London. He has written on Renaissance life and culture for Shakespeare's Globe and the King's College London Centre for Early Modern Studies. Alongside his day job at the Wellcome Trust, he is busy writing the next novel in the Simon & Kate Mayfield mystery series. Nick lives in London.

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Books by Nick Beckett

The Book of Martyrs

A Novel

By Nick Beckett

1595. A former thief and a famed astrologist are engulfed by persecution and murder during England’s Golden Age, in this new historical mystery series set during the colorful Tudor Era.

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