- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Lost Coast Press; 1 edition (March 15, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1935448056
- ISBN-13: 978-1935448051
In 11th-century England, Abbess Cecily hosts a dinner at Shaftesbury
Abbey. Among the guests are Cecily's half brother, Tirel, a knight and
world-weary veteran of the Crusades, Sir Baudri de Beaumont and his
lovely wife, Beatrice, and Beatrice s look-alike sister Sophina. As
minstrels, jugglers, and acrobats amuse the diners, Beatrice suddenly
collapses in agony and breathes her last. It now falls to Dame Averilla,
a headstrong young nun, Sir Tirel, and Bailiff Robert Bradshaw to
investigate. The three must determine whether a crime has indeed been
committed, or whether the death, which appears to have been caused by
poisoned food, was a dreadful accident. In the process, they discover
that the woman who actually succumbed to the poison might not have been
Beatrice, and that the murder may have arisen either from jealousy and
avarice among the nobility, or was a politically driven outrage ordered
by King Henry himself.
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