I was clearing my older android and came across a series I had clean forgot. This is the John Shakespeare series by Rory Clements. Shakespeare is 'an older brother' of the playwright/poet/actor so this series, like the the Giordono series set in late 16th century England. There are six novels of which I've read three. As I had forgotten them, my guess is I did not particularly like them...or I am reaching senility. It might be fun if Clements and Parris combined the talents their contemporaneous Elizabethan colleagues into one grand story. As if!