![]() ![]() ![]() Before he can ask Elvera in detail about her relative's death, however, she drowns. ![]() Through a jeweled cross left at the scene of the murder, Josse is able to determine that Gunnora was Elvera's cousin. But the sister has since died, leaving in question who will inherit the combined estate. ![]() Rather than do so, she entered the convent while her younger sister married the man. Delving into Gunnora's past, Josse discovers that she was the older daughter of a dying lord who wanted her to marry a neighbor in order to join their lands. In fact, her only friend was newcomer Elvera, with whom she gossiped and laughed. The abbess tells Josse that the slain novice, Gunnora, while outwardly devout, didn't have the right attitude for convent life. Fearful the people will rally against him, Richard dispatches knight Josse d'Acquin to Hawkenlye Abbey, headed by the incomparable Abbess Helewise, to make sure a freed felon didn't commit the crime. Richard Plantagenet, at his mother's behest, has released prisoners to signal the start of his enlightened reign in 1189. The brutal murder of a young nun threatens the peace of the kingdom in this promising first novel by an author who might just be the next Ellis Peters. ![]()
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