Crispin Guest Medieval Noir (5 books in series)
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review 1: Ms Westerson has written 6 books involving Chrispin Guest as her "tracker". This is book 6. I guess it is not so much the book as Guest himself I enjoy so much. He used to be a knight of the realm who trusted the wrong people (his godfather) and lost everything except his life...
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review 1: Picked up this one randomly at the library and glad I did. It's a wonderfully written murder mystery. There's a bit of romance, a lot of who-done-it, and a fair amount of religious history thrown in. What would you do with a shroud emblazoned with the image of Jesus Christ that h...
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review 1: I liked that this one had a bit more politics/history than the previous one and the use of minor characters was improved. Not quite sure how I feel about the overall message and some of the politically/culturally progressive aspects of the plot as the setting is feudal England, ...
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review 1: Jeri Westerson's The Demon's Parchment has twists and turns that are amazing. Before I figured out one, there was another. I was grabbed right from the first two pages and gladly kept on reading. Crispin Guest certainly gets himself into difficulty to danger quickly. It appea...
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review 1: This is number five, I think, in the series but the first one for me. There is enough background information to figure out the main character's back story but the story works on its own. The 14th-century setting is unusual and well realized although I would have liked a bit more ...