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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Song of the Nightingaledi Alys Clare
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. One of the better Hawkenlye mysteries; I couldn't put this one down. Three men commit a dastardly crime and their bodies later are found, one with a complicated design carved into his chest; it is interpreted as a series of three runes signifying vengeance--"Lex talionis" [Eye for an eye]. Then two more men are punished in the same form in which they had inflicted evil on others--a tax extortioner, by flogging and a sometime deputy of the sheriff, death in water, since he had stood by doing nothing while a family had drowned in a raging river. The investigation of Josse and Helewise try to find the innocence of someone accused of the crime. Ninian, who has been with the Cathars in France is led to Chartres, as well as the couple. Who is the "Brown Man"? Has he anything to do with the deaths? Helewise decides to change the direction of her life henceforth. I wonder what direction the mysteries will take now. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Winter, 1211. King John's reign is harsh, and his tax collectors wring money from people near to starvation. Homeless, desperate men are reduced to walking the streets, begging for handouts, and the nuns at Hawkenlye Abbey, now under John's iron rule, are all but powerless to help. Former abbess Helewise decides to move back to her cell near the abbey, to better help the needy, putting a strain on her tentative relationship with Sir Josse D'Acquin. But he must put his personal feelings aside when he is called examine the body of a man who bears a complicated symbol carved into his chest: a symbol that signifies vengeance. Meanwhile, far from home, Josse's son Ninian has become involved in the lives and cause of the doomed Cathar people. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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