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Second in the acclaimed Geoffrey Chaucer mystery series,
A medieval mystery in the tradition of Ellis Peters and Edward
Marston, Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage casts noted poet
Geoffrey Chaucer in the role of detective. Chaucer uses his keen
insights into human nature, his experience as a spy, and his skills
as an astrologer to track down who murdered the beautiful gypsy,
Sophia, while on the road to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at
Canterbury. He enlists the aid of his fellow pilgrims
The only life which sixteen-year-old herbalist Jane Dare has ever
known suddenly and traumatically vanishes, when a group of renegade
knights destroys the convent in which she has grown up and slays
everyone who lives there except herself, the convent infirmarian,
and their two patients. The survivors are rescued by two young and
ambitious noblemen in the service of King Edward the Fourth, Sir
Alan Sanford, and his close friend, Sir John du Fay. Sir Alan is
determined to marry a wealthy noblewoman but his heart decrees
otherwise. Captivated by the beautiful herbalist, he fights his
attraction to her and loses. She is at his side throughout King
Edward s fight for the throne. Yet Alan s ambition gets in the way.
Knowing this, Jane, in spite of her love for him, lets him go, and
pursues her chosen profession: healing. Alan takes control of vast
lands in the north, and they part for several years. Until King
Edward dies and leaves his son, a mere boy of thirteen, to inherit
the throne surrounded by enemies. Their mutual concern for the lad
and his younger brother brings Jane and Alan together again. But
will they be able to save the boys and still find love once more?
A history of the development of harmony in the Middle Ages,
including the music, composers, theorists and music theory,
musicians, and relevant historical figures, as well as studies of
folk music, medieval chant, and polyphony from the days of
Gregorian chant to the florid polyphony of the early Renaissance.
Who murdered the gypsy temptress? Why is a sneak thief disrupting a
journey to a holy shrine? Poet Geoffrey Chaucer must find out - or
hang A medieval mystery in the tradition of Ellis Peters and Edward
Marston, Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage casts noted poet
Geoffrey Chaucer in the role of detective. Chaucer uses his keen
insight into human nature, his experience as a spy, and his skills
as an astrologer to track down who murdered the beautiful gypsy,
Sophia, while on the road to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at
Canterbury. He enlists the aid of his fellow pilgrims - one of whom
must be the murderer
Who stole the Picasso from the Paris art school? Who's so anxious
to get ahold of great artworks that they're willing to commit
murder and kidnapping? Art teacher Lindsay Parker must find out -
and must also learn the truth about her new love, Alain Bordeaux.
Lindsay Parker expected an exciting life when she moved to teach
art in Paris. The excitement, however, proved to be more than she
had bargained for. A Picasso is stolen from the art school. Two
previously unknown Cezannes turn up in a junk shop. One of her new
friends is kidnapped and another is murdered. Is Lindsay next? Does
she, like the others, know too much? And all the while, at her
side, is the handsome, brilliant and mysterious Alain Bordeaux. Who
is he? How is he connected to the art thefts? And what role is he
destined to play in Lindsay's life? To learn the answers, Lindsay
must investigate - in the underworld of Paris.
Second in the acclaimed Geoffrey Chaucer mystery series,
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