Land of the Silver Dragon
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Publisher Description
'A cracking good read that is recommended for all collections' - Booklist Starred Review
A traveller's gory tale strikes a little too close to home for Lassair . . .
Apprentice healer Lassair isn’t too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grisly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman’s home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her attitude changes when she learns that the dead woman is a distant relation. The incident makes Lassair’s family uneasy, for the intruder seemed to be searching for something.
What could it be? Lassair has no idea. But as the stranger grows increasingly desperate, his search brings violence to her very home.
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Clare's fifth paranormal mystery featuring 11th-century apprentice healer Lassair (after 2011's The Way Between the Worlds) gets off to a fast start with a "red-bearded giant" bursting into the home of Utta, mother-in-law of Lassair's sister Goda, and smashing in Utta's skull. The intruder also injures Goda. Later, someone, presumably the same man, breaks into the abbey where another sister of Lassair lives, the nun Elfritha, and ransacks the dormitory before turning his attention to Lassair's own home in Aelf Fen, a town in East Anglia. Lassair is at a loss as to what the stranger could be looking for, and her search for answers ends up taking her to Iceland. But the narrative doesn't sustain the tension created by the rapid-fire acts of terror that kick things off, and the inevitable deceleration makes this a less engaging entry than its predecessor.
