A Gift of Sanctuary- An Owen Archer Mystery

Ecken und Kanten angestoßen, Seiten leicht vergilbt, sonst in sehr gutem Zustand für sein Alter, enthält zusätzliche acht Seiten Vorschau auf "The Riddle of St. Leonards". Titelgroßbuchstaben sind vergoldet.

Through the wet spring of 1369 a pilgrimage wends its way to the sacred city of St. Davids. Owen Archer, ex-soldier and sometime spy, accompanies the party to recruit archers for the French. But he and Geoffrey Chaucer have another, covert, mission: to ascertain whether the Dukes steward at Cydweli is betraying him to Welsh rebels.
Trouble precedes them: a body in the Dukes livery is left at the city gates. And wehn Owen rides on to Cydweli he finds the household of the steward and his beautiful young wife rocked by the theft of money from the exchequer and riven by tenison, culminating in another violent attack. He must work fast to inverstigate charges of treachery, infidelity and murder if he is to prevent further deaths...
Political skulduggery, passsion and ambition clash in this intriguing, evocative and compelling novel which vividly conjures up the medieval world.
A "must have"-crime story!

k.A.