Season of Blood
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3.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A missing Holy Relic. A mysterious and beautiful woman. Two murdered monks: Crispin Guest tackles his most intriguing investigation to date.
1390. Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. Two monks lie murdered, their Holy Blood relic stolen: a relic that is said to run liquid for the sinless and remain stubbornly dry for the sinner. Unwilling to become involved in a bitter dispute between a country monastery and Westminster Abbey, the disgraced former knight Crispin Guest attempts to return the relic to Hailes where it belongs, but somehow it keeps returning to his hands no matter what.
As he tries to shield a former nemesis from a charge of murder while becoming entangled with a mysterious and beautiful woman caught between Church politics and the dangerous intrigues of King Richard?s court, Crispin begins to suspect that someone at Westminster is conspiring with the assassins. Can the Blood of Christ point to the killer?
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At the start of Westerson's solid 10th medieval mystery (after 2016's A Maiden Weeping), Crispin Guest, a former knight who now investigates crimes for six pence a day, notices he's being followed one cold March night through the narrow lanes of London. Crispin manages to waylay his pursuer, who turns out to be a beautiful young woman seeking his services. They withdraw to a small house Crispin has a key to, where the woman asks him to find her niece, who has fallen into the clutches of Simon Winchcombe, a vile seducer who just happens to be Crispin's nemesis. Before Crispin can learn the woman's name, there's a knock at the door. He opens it and has to quickly sidestep the falling body of a Cistercian monk with a dagger in his back. The unknown woman disappears, but that doesn't stop Crispin, who has a strong sense of justice, from trying to help her niece and going after the monk's killer. Fans of 20th-century noir will relate to Crispin, who doesn't say no to a drink and is a sucker for damsels in distress.
