![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of historical crime will relish this first adventure in a series featuring the enterprising Abbess of Meaux. ![]() In spite of occasional plot-necessary myopia, Hildegard is an engaging protagonist, sensible, kindly, resourceful and believable she is also endearingly susceptible to a pair of Saxon blue eyes (Ulf) and Norman grey ones (Hubert). Her hunt for suitable premises is interrupted by the discovery of five corpses hanging from a gibbet and later by the attempted poisoning of her old friend, Lord Roger de Hutton. Down these mean forest paths rides the well-connected Hildegard, recently widowed and even more recently a nun with money to burn, she wants to establish a religious house of her own. Much of England is woodland, and lawless. Richard II is still a minor, so instability abounds pockets of resistance remain after Wat Tyler's rebellion and there's a superfluity of popes adding to the religious turmoil already fuelled by Wycliffe and his vernacular Bible. Cassandra Clark Hangman Blind: A Hildegard of Meaux medieval mystery Kindle Edition by Cassandra Clark (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 116 ratings Book 1 of 8: Abbess Hildegard of Meaux See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 27.02 17 Used from 1.92 2 New from 20.50 1 Collectible from 12. 1382 is a good year in which to set a crime novel. ![]()
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