It is Midsummer, 1631. While Alexander Seaton and his fellow masters enjoy the holiday with their students, Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College, is murdered in a dark alleyway in town. While the university and town authorities investigate the murder, Seaton is asked by the college principal to look into Sim's private life. In the course of an investigation in which his personal feelings threaten to cloud his judgement and endanger his young marriage to Sarah, he discovers a side to the librarian he could never have guessed at. It is only when a second, apparently unrelated murder comes to light that Seaton begins to piece together the connections between a young weaver, a consignment of books, and events in a college in the Low Countries in order to unmask the perpetrator of the years'-old deception that led to the two deaths.
- ISBN10 1849163154
- ISBN13 9781849163156
- Publish Date 4 August 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quercus Publishing
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English