The Gallows Curse

Informationen zum Autor Karen Maitland Klappentext The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin. In the village of Gastmere, this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena. Unwittingly drawn into a macabre scheme to absolve dying Lord Gerard of his crimes, death and betrayal haunt her dreams like a curse. And when Elena is threatened with hanging for a murder she did not commit, it is certain that unnatural conspiracy lies behind these dark deeds. But where can she turn? For in every face lies wickedness and in every shadow lurks treachery . . . Zusammenfassung The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin. In the village of Gastmere, this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena.

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Karen Maitland

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen Maitland, Maitland Karen
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2012
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur
• EAN: 9780141047447
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104744-7
• Anzahl Seiten: 592
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.5 cm
• Themen: England; FICTION / Historical / General; Historical mysteries; Historical crime and mysteries; 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299