![]() Ian Morson, who is the author of the Oxford-based Falconer mystery series.Īnd Philip Gooden, who writes Shakespearean murder mysteries. Susanna Gregory, who's novels feature Matthew Bartholomew, a Cambridge physician in the period following the Black Death. Michael Jecks,who is the author of the Templar series, set in Devon under the reign of King Edward II. Thirty years later, several suspicious deaths occur in Cambridge - and, once again, the tainted relic has a crucial part to play.įinally, it's despatched to London, where Philip Gooden's Nick Revill will determine its ultimate fate.īernard Knight, who is the author of ten novels in the Crowner John series. In 1323, in Exeter, Michael Jecks' Sir Baldwin has reason to suspect its involvement in at least five violent deaths. In Oxford in 1269, the discovery of a decapitated monk leads Ian Morson's academic sleuth William Falconer to uncover a link to the relic. In five interlinked chronological tales (and a prologue), a brilliant cast of medieval sleuths created by Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knig ht. Investigating the death, Bernard Knight's protagonist, Crowner John learns of its dark history. Several decades later, the Cross turns up in the possession of a dealer, robbed and murdered en route to Glastonbury. ![]() ![]() ![]() The relic is said to be cursed: anyone who touches it will meet an untimely and gruesome end. Amidst the chaos, an English knight is entrusted with a valuable religious relic: a fragment of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ. ![]()
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