Fire, Burn is the sequel to Chris Crowcroft's highly successful and well reviewed historical thriller Shakespeare in Trouble, featuring the Elizabethan investigator, Richard Palmer.

It is now 1605 and intelligence sources are warning that Catholic terrorists, angry at a new regime's reluctance to grant religious toleration, are planning a violent event, but not who or when. Robert Cecil, Chief Minister under the new King, James Stuart, calls Richard Palmer in for a second time.

Palmer must infiltrate the insurgent network, including its...