Review
"Robb puts the history back into the historical mystery." --Kirkus Reviews
Review
"Robb puts the history back into the historical mystery." --Kirkus Reviews
Review
"Robb puts the history back into the historical mystery." --Kirkus Reviews
Book Description
Owen Archer, the intriguing Welsch archer-turned-sleuth, is back-in another riveting challenge to Ellis Peters!
High summer, 1365-and York is glorious with pageantry for the Feast of Corpus Christi. But wool merchant Will Crounce, who acts in "The Last Judgement," meets his maker all too soon, his throat slit in the shadow of the great cathedral. When Crounce's severed hand is found in fellow-merchant Gilbert Ridley's tavern lodging, the Archbishop calls in Own Archer.
To unravel a second murder, and the grisly warning of another severed hand, Owen will need his sharp mind, his bow and arrows, and even his wife Lucie's apothecary skills. For soon he will be drawn into a tangle of greed, treachery, and passion that runs from Ridley and the wool trade all the way to the royal court.
About the Author
Candace M. Robb is also the author of The Apothecary Rose. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband.
The Lady Chapel (An Owen Archer Mystery) FROM THE PUBLISHER
The city of York, 1365. It is summer and Owen Archer finds himself called upon by Archbishop Thoresby to investigate a murder. The night after the city celebrates Corpus Christi with the traditional round of processions and pageants, a merchant in the Mercers' Guild is brutally murdered within the minster liberty. His severed hand is found in a room at the York Tavern - a room that was hastily vacated by Gilbert Ridley, a fellow guild member who quarreled with the victim. Owen is quickly drawn into the complex web of rivalries and betrayals that surrounds Ridley and his fellow wool traders. Smuggling and double-crossing have earned them dangerous enemies, and when another murder occurs - and another severed hand is left as a warning - Owen is unsure which way to turn. Soon Owen and his wife, Lucie, find themselves and their household in great danger, caught up in a plot devised by masters far more powerful than they imagined.
FROM THE CRITICS
BookList - Margaret Flanagan
Owen Archer, apothecary apprentice and master spy, returns in a new fourteenth-century mystery involving palace intrigue and high treason. After Will Crounce, a prominent member of the powerful Mercer's Guild, is ruthlessly murdered, his severed hand is deposited in the lodgings of his best friend and business partner to serve as a warning and a threat to the close-knit community of wool merchants. Commissioned by Archbishop Thoresby to investigate the heinous crime, the redoubtable Archer becomes enmeshed in a perplexing web of avarice, chicanery, and deceit. When the assassinations and the mutilations begin to multiply and the evidence appears to implicate the king's much-despised mistress, Owen begins to fear for his own safety and well-being. Rich in authentic historical detail, this taut thriller will appeal to the growing legion of medieval mystery fans.
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