The Lammas Wild
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Publisher Description
Healer Lassair returns to England and uncovers a secret that puts the lives of everyone she knows in grave danger, in the final Aelf Fen medieval mystery.
It is the summer of 1100, and after seven long years away in Spain, Lassair is finally going home. Back to her beloved mentor Gurdyman. Back to her family. And back to young lawman Jack Chevestrier, who Lassair hopes still carries the same deep feelings for her as she does for him.
Before she can reunite with her loved ones, however, Lassair has a long-overdue task to perform. Old flame – and king’s spy – Rollo Guiscard left her a chest before he died, and it is finally time for her to collect it. But the chest contains more than gold, and soon Lassair is caught up in a web of danger and deception that threatens not just her own life, but the lives of everyone she holds dear.
And this is not the only peril Lassair must face. For although she’s left the south behind her forever, the south is not done with her yet . . .
Gripping, tense and moving, the last installment of the Aelf Fen series provides both a twisty and compelling historical murder mystery and a hugely satisfying end to Lassair’s story, which began over a decade ago with OUT OF THE DAWN LIGHT.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1100, Clare's strong 10th and final Aelf Fen mystery (after 2019's City of Pearl) finds the talented healer Lassair, who can also read minds, back home in the Fenland of East Anglia after a seven-year absence in Spain. The tension rises with the murder of one of the first people she speaks to, wealthy widow Eleanor de Lacey. Even more ominous, an enemy from Spain is trailing Lassair, with violence clearly the intent. The investigation into Eleanor's murder and others that follow by the man Lassair loves, Cambridge lawman Jack Chevestrier, leads to the exposure of a network of spies. Meanwhile, Lassair dares not reveal herself to Jack for fear that she'll bring death to his door. The political strife tearing apart England during this time, with royal rivals lashing out at one another, makes an effective background, and the fantasy element never dilutes the power of the mystery. At the novel's center is the affecting romance between Lassair and Jack, which Clare smoothly integrates into the suspenseful narrative. Readers will be sorry to see the last of Lassair.
