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Title:

The Great revolt / Paul Doherty.

Author:

Doherty, P. C.

ISBN:

9781780290867

9781780295688

Personal Author:

Doherty, P. C.

Edition:

First world edition.

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 23 cm.

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Series:

A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery.

Brother Athelstan mysteries.

Abstract:

Sleuthing monk Brother Athelstan discovers that past crimes can cause new murder in the latest intriguing medieval mystery. June, 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London, determined to overturn both Crown and Church. The Regent, John of Gaunt, has headed north, leaving his nephew, the boy-king Richard II, unprotected. Brother Athelstan meanwhile has been summoned to the monastery at Blackfriars, tasked with solving the murder of his fellow priest, Brother Alberic, found stabbed to death in his locked chamber. Athelstan would rather be protecting his parishioners at St Erconwald's. Instead, he finds himself investigating a royal murder that took place fifty-four years earlier whilst the rebel leaders plot the present king's destruction. What does the fate of the king's great-grandfather, Edward II, have to do with the murder of Brother Alberic more than fifty years later? When he finds his own life under threat, Athelstan discovers that exposing past secrets can lead to present danger.

Personal Subject:

John, of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 1340-1399-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Athelstan, Brother (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- History -- Richard II, 1377-1399 -- Fiction.

Format:

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Summary

Sleuthing monk Brother Athelstan discovers that past crimes can cause new murder in the latest intriguing medieval mystery

June, 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London, determined to overturn both Crown and Church. The Regent, John of Gaunt, has headed north, leaving his nephew, the boy-king Richard II, unprotected.

Brother Athelstan meanwhile has been summoned to the monastery at Blackfriars, tasked with solving the murder of his fellow priest, Brother Alberic, found stabbed to death in his locked chamber. Athelstan would rather be protecting his parishioners at St Erconwald's. Instead, he finds himself investigating a royal murder that took place fifty-four years earlier whilst the rebel leaders plot the present king's destruction.

What does the fate of the king's great-grandfather, Edward II, have to do with the murder of Brother Alberic more than fifty years later? When he finds his own life under threat, Athelstan discovers that exposing past secrets can lead to present danger.

Author Notes

Mystery writer P. C. Doherty was born in Middlesborough, England. He is probably best known for the series which includes Ghostly Murders, A Tournament of Murders, A Tapestry of Murders, and An Ancient Evil. Other works include The Rose Demon, Satan's Fire, and The Devil's Hunt.

Doherty also has published under the pen names of Paul Harding (The Nightingale Gallery) and Michael Clynes (The White Rose Murders).

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Set in 1381, Doherty's enthralling 16th Brother Athelstan mystery finds the Dominican Order at Blackfriars in an uproar over the stabbing death of Brother Alberic, whose body has been found in a locked guest room. Fortunately, Brother Athelstan, erudite fellow friar and parish priest of St. Erconwald's in Southwark, is on hand to investigate the baffling murder and the five that follow. Outside the friary walls, death takes a far greater toll, as the Wat Tyler-led peasant revolt against Richard II, simmering in 2015's The Herald of Hell, boils over. Meanwhile, a subplot involving the scandalous fate of a different king, Edward II, deposed 52 years earlier, complicates the story line. Along the way to a denouement both audacious and satisfying, connoisseurs of Brother Athelstan's world will enjoy the cerebral discussions taking place in monastic chambers suffused with incense and candle smoke, juxtaposed with the chaotic filthy roar of 14th-century London. Agent: David Headley, David Headley Literary Agency (U.K.). (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

After doing an admirable job of prepping for the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 in the previous few entries of this series, including The Herald of Hell (2016), Doherty finally brings revolution to its stirring climax in the streets of medieval London. Of course, since this is a Brother Athelstan whodunit, the historical events serve as the background and setting for another intriguing mystery. When young Richard II seeks beatification for his murdered grandfather, Edward II, one of the priests sent to investigate the request is stabbed to death. As London rages, Brother Athelstan reaches back in time to solve a murder rooted firmly in the royal family's often tortured past. Though the revolt itself takes a backseat to the crime, it nevertheless provides a tense backdrop for Athelstan, who is torn between his desire to protect his parish flock and his sworn duty to king and crown.--Flanagan, Margaret Copyright 2016 Booklist