num_pages: 447
description: Carlisle in 1592 is one of the most dangerous parts of Queen Elizabeth's kingdom. Sir Robert Carey, newly appointed Deputy Warden of the West March, has wangled his job to be nearer his true love and further from his amorous queen. He will not be there for long unless he finds out who killed Sweetmilk Geordie Graham, youngest, dearest and one of the most violent members of the family of Jock Graham of the Peartree. Someone has to find out who killed him before his death starts a minor civil war...
language: English
title: A Famine of Horses
titlecomplete: A Famine of Horses (Sir Robert Carey, #1)
characters: Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Historical Mystery, Tudor Period, Elizabethan Period, Historical Fiction, 16th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 1335
places: Carlisle, Cumbria, England
series: Sir Robert Carey
publisher: Magna Large Print Books