The House of Shadows (A Brother Athelstan Mystery)

by Paul Doherty

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In the late autumn of 1380, Brother Athelstan is busy. He and his parish council are preparing for the annual Christmas mystery play when a series of brutal murders occur at a Southwark tavern. Two young whores are found slain in the tavern's hay barn. But their deaths are only the beginning of a sequence of gruesome killings which occur around the parish of St Erconwald's. A whole list of mysterious characters assemble to this pageant of murder: the Misericord, master thief and cunning man; the Judas man, a bounty hunter who tracks down outlaws and wolfheads; and finally...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780755350971
  • Publish Date 4 September 2008 (first published 2 August 2004)
  • Publish Status Withdrawn
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Headline Publishing Group
  • Imprint Headline Book Publishing
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 320
  • Language English