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A Shrine of Murders

โœ 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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โœฆ 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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