Murder in the Cloister

About the author

Tania Bayard is a freelance writer and lecturer specializing in medieval art, culture, and horticulture. She has taught art history at Fordham, Rutgers, and Hofstra universities and is the author of a number of non-fiction books, including A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century. Previously, she was the curator of the Biblical Garden at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and assistant horticulturist at The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Summary

Paris, 1399. Scribe Christine de Pizan is sent to the Priory of Poissy by the palace, but soon senses that something is amiss. The prioress reveals that one of the sisters was murdered in the cloister. Fearing for the welfare of the king's daughter who resides at the abbey, she is eager for Christine to find out who killed the young nun - and why.

Product details

• Authors: Tania Bayard, Bayard Tania
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780727889454
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-8945-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: A Christine de Pizan Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Historical mysteries, France, FICTION / Historical / Medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, 14th century, c 1300 to c 1399