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The Good Knight - Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mysteries 1 (An enhanced ebook) [Kindle Edition]

Sarah Woodbury , Saffina Desforges
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Move over, Brother Cadfael, there's a new 'tec in town. And she means business!

Sarah Woodbury is the new Ellis Peters. - Saffina Desforges, UK best-selling author of Sugar & Spice and the Rose Red crime thrillers.

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Intrigue, suspicion, and rivalry among the royal princes casts a shadow on the court of Owain, king of North Wales…

The year is 1143 and King Owain seeks to unite his daughter in marriage with an allied king. But when the groom is murdered on the way to his wedding, the bride’s brother tasks his two best detectives—Gareth, a knight, and Gwen, the daughter of the court bard—with bringing the killer to justice.

And once blame for the murder falls on Gareth himself, Gwen must continue her search for the truth alone, finding unlikely allies in foreign lands, and ultimately uncovering a conspiracy that will shake the political foundations of Wales.

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The second of the Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mysteries, The Uninvited Guest, is now available as an ehanced ebook.

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The Good Knight is an enhanced ebook with an introduction by UK best-selling crime writer Saffina Desforges, maps, images, pronunciation guide, historical essays and sample chapters to other Welsh history novels by Sarah Woodbury.

About the Author

With two historian parents, Sarah couldn’t help but develop an interest in the past. She went on to get more than enough education herself (in anthropology) and began writing fiction when the stories in her head overflowed and demanded she let them out. Her interest in Wales stems from her own ancestry and the year she lived in England when she fell in love with the country, language, and people. She even convinced her husband to give all four of their children Welsh names. She makes her home in Oregon.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Eille
Format:Kindle Edition
I've been looking for something to satisfy my Brother Cadfael craving for years, ever since my beloved Ellis Peters passed away, and I've never quite found a series that filled in the gap until I read The Good Knight. It's an absolutely fantastic read, historically authentic with a wealth of period detail and great insight into both the political situation and daily life in medieval Wales. What I loved most of all, though, was exactly what I love so much about the Ellis Peters books: in Gwen, the author has created a fiesty, intelligent heroine who can hold her own even in a very male-dominated world. And romance! A romance that is sweet without being at all sappy, just wonderfully done. Sarah Woodbury, hurry up and write the next book in the series, because I can't wait to find out what happens to Gwen and Gareth! I hope they have as many adventures together as Brother Cadfael!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The Good Knight 24 Feb 2012
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I was a bit hesitant about buying this one as mystery books are not among my favourites. But having bought all of Sarah Woodbury's other books and thoroughly enjoyed them, I clicked on the button.
I did enjoy reading it, in fact it jumped the (long, long) queue of waiting books and now I am waiting for the sequel to appear as I definitely want to read more about Gwen and Gareth.
( Ideally I would have givin it 4.5 stars as only favourite books normally get 5, but 4 would feel mean as it is simply not my favourite genre.)
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Every so often there comes a historic-fiction novelist that raises the bar for its genre. Robert Graves, Umberto Eco, Ellis Peters... And now Sarah Woodbury.

I actually bought The Good Knight a month or so ago, intrigued by the stained-glass window on the cover, but it was just another historic fiction novel waiting to be read. Then I spotted the latest cover and the updated blurb.

This was a bold claim. A successor to Cadfael? Could it be?

It could. Sarah Woodbury takes you on a journey through time to twelfth century North Wales, and brings it to life in such a way I had to check twice my understanding that this was an American author, not someone from the Snowdonian mountains.

Furthermore Woodbury learned from a mistake Ellis Peters made, and provides a pronunciation guide to help her readers through the near-impossibility of pronouncing medieval Welsh names (Ellis Peters noted with disappointment that her creation, Brother Cadfael, was never pronounced correctly in the TV series).

Though one might almost call this Sister Cadfael, for the MCs are the delightfully named Gareth and Gwen, and unquestionably Gwen steals the show, as a...

Well, that would be a spoiler. Suffice to say, if you like medieval fiction or you like mysteries you're in for a treat. If medieval mysteries are your thing and you're still missing Cadfael, then this is your lucky day.
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