The Secret Familiar: Confessions of an Inquisitor's Spy

✍ Scribed by Jinks, Catherine

• Book ID: 108639181
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1741750504

✦ Synopsis

Beautifully crafted historical fiction set in medieval France, The Secret Familiar is a page-turning murder mystery and a fascinating moral tale of betrayal, faith and ultimate truth.

*He is my master, and a great man. Yet I would have preferred to escape his notice. 'Hide yourself,' he told me, and I obeyed - perhaps too well. No inquisitor likes to be outwitted.

I just want to be left alone. Is that too much to ask, after so many years of faithful service?*

Helie is a former spy of the famous fourteenth-century inquisitor Bernard Gui. Now he is living under an alias, trying to forget his past life of deception and intrigue. But a chance meeting once more brings him to the notice of the Inquisition; he is obliged to infiltrate a new heretical group, and find out what happened to the last spy sent to do so. Was he murdered or did he flee?

Helie soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous conspiracy involving outlawed beliefs and human remains. The trouble is...