A Shrine of Murders
โ Scribed by Paul Doherty (as C. L. Grace)
- Book ID
- 111649563
- Publisher
- Headline
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Series
- Kathryn Swinbrooke #1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780755395613
- ASIN
- B00GU2VUUQ
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โฆ Synopsis
A serial killer haunts 15th-century Canterbury. Kathryn Swinbrooke is an independent practitioner of medicine, discovering the benefits of an apple-rich diet for teeth, and prescribing herbs and vinegar for almost every known malady. Canterbury's tourist trade, already jeopardized by the War of the Roses, is further imperilled by a spate of poisoned pilgrims, each corpse accompanied by the appearance of a line or two of rough verse, in style remarkably similar to Geoffrey Chaucer's soon-to-be famous work. Suspecting the murderer is a doctor, the Archbishop asks for Kathryn's help. In a fascinating hunt that pits her against the august town physicians, Kathryn is aided only by her wits, her foul-mouthed, warm-hearted servant Thomasina, and Colum Murtagh, a powerful Irish mercenary
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