Sacred Stone

Informationen zum Autor Bernard Knight! a former Home Office pathologist! is the author of the acclaimed Crowner John series. Former police officer Susanna Gregory's novels feature Matthew Bartholomew! a C14th Cambridge physician. Karen Maitland is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling C14th mysteries Company of Liars and The Owl Killers. Philip Gooden writes Shakespearean murder mysteries. Ian Morson is the author of the Oxford-based Falconer series. Klappentext Five intriguing interlinked mysteries from the Medieval Murderers group. Zusammenfassung 1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland! a band of hunters discover a strangely-shaped meteor which has fallen from the sky. At first! the mysterious 'sky-stone' seems to bring good luck! healing a lame boy and guaranteeing a good catch of furs. But violence and murder soon follow in fortune's wake as the villagers fight and struggle among themselves to get control of the precious stone. Over the next six hundred years! the Sky-Stone falls into the hands of crusading knights! the wicked Sheriff of Devon! a group of radical young kabalists! the dying King Henry III and a band of travelling players. Each time! the stone brings treachery! discord and violent death to those who seek to possess it.

Product details

• Authors: The Medieval Murderers, The Medieval Murderers
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2010
• EAN: 9781847376770
• ISBN: 978-1-84737-677-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Historical crime novels