Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Karen Maitland, Ian Morson, Philip Gooden. Simon & Schuster U.K. (IPG, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-85720-426-4
Gregory and Maitland’s contributions lift the winning seventh collaborative effort by five of today’s top historical mystery novelists (after 2011’s The Sacred Stone). In Gregory’s chilling variation on The Hound of the Baskervilles, set in 1199,...
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The Medieval Murderers. Simon & Schuster U.K. (IPG, dist.), $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-84983-736-1
A play featuring Cain’s murder of Abel, The Play of Adam, written in 1154 by Prior Wigod for his priory’s Easter pageant, links the six strong narratives in this eighth collective offering (after 2011’s Hill of Bones) from the Medieval Murders (this
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Karen Maitland, Author . Delacorte $24 (465p) ISBN 978-0-385-34169-1
Desperate to outrun the Black Death ravaging England during the sodden summer of 1348, nine disparate souls band together in this harrowing historical, which infuses a Canterbury Tales
scenario with the spectral chill of an M. Night Shyamalan ghost
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Karen Maitland, Author . Delacorte $26 (509p) ISBN 978-0-385-34170-7
In the tiny English village of Ulewic in 1321, a struggle brews between the Owl Masters, who want to bring back pagan worship, and a group of pious Christian women, called beguines, who merely wish to be left in peace. Having suffered from floods...
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The Medieval Murderers. Simon & Schuster U.K. (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-84737-676-3
A meteorite that lands in an isolated Greenland settlement in 1067 propels the so-so sixth collaborative mystery (after 2009's King Arthur's Bones) from the Medieval Murderers (Susanna Gregory, Simon Beaufort, Bernard Knight, Karen Maitland, Ian...
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