Brother Chandler
Mystery Series,
following
The Hour of the Fox
and
The Day of the Serpent.
Published by Severn House
6 June 2023
Chester, 1400. Riding for his life, with a copy of
Chaucer's heretical Canterbury Tales in his possession, friar-sleuth Brother
Chandler is ambushed on the road and wakes up in a stranger's house.
Is his 'rescuer', wool merchant John Willoughby, friend . . . or foe?
Willoughby declares that he, like Chandler, has renounced the self-crowned King
Henry IV and will help Chandler get his dangerous belongings to safety. He
seems trustworthy, but Chandler knows that if he's caught by the King's
merciless censors together with the Tales, he'll be burned at the stake.
But then Willoughby's young wife perishes in a terrible accident at their house
- or so it seems . . . Willoughby asks Chandler to help investigate if it was
indeed an accident or if someone had a hidden agenda.
All Chandler wants to do is find safe haven for Chaucer's Tales and return to
London, but he accepts the case. Little does he know that it will lead to
secrets being uncovered which will put not only Chandler but also those around
him in unimaginable peril.
Cassandra Clark was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire where she grew up in a village near the ancient medieval market town of Beverley. For several years she wrote scripts for the theatre, radio and television as well as contemporary fiction while tutoring at the Open University. She won a Directors' Guild Award for a stage play and ran a lunch-time theatre in a Tudor inn in York. She is the author of the acclaimed series featuring Abbess Hildegard and her sidekick Brother Thomas. There are twelve books in the series. Her most recent series is set at the beginning of the fifteenth century and features Brother Chandler.
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