The Lady Chapel: A Medieval Murder MysteryThe second Owen Archer mystery opens with a killing within the walls of York Minster. It is June 1365 and the feast of Corpus Christi. A murdered man is discovered with his right hand missing, but it is not until an identical death occurs that Owen makes the distant connection with royal Windsor.

centuries before their time

London shall have them

and by the simmering animosities of smalltown life

I’m asking you to build something that contains all the strangeness and confusion that you can muster

He does what's right

but alive in Scotland

His apothecary business is doing well and he is blissfully content with his charming wife and adorable little daughter

a megalomaniac intent on possessing all Europe

a Turkish victory looms on the horizon

dressed all in black

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