Dear Mr. Cornwell,

You have a new reader. My husband has read all the Sharpe novels (going to considerable length to track down those unavailable from the publisher), as well as the Arthur books, and of course we have both enjoyed watching The Last Kingdom series.

I felt the battle scenes in the books would be more bloodshed than I could bear, but when I found some titles of yours in our favorite used bookstore, I picked them up for my husband.

Lucky for me, I had stumbled across “Gallows Thief” and “Fools and Mortals,” both excellent tales wonderfully told, something woefully underappreciated and underrepresented in fiction today.

Both my husband and I are grateful for your wit, imagination, and painstaking research, and for the many books in your catalogue we have yet to discover.

Your new fan,

Susan