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Robb should have subtitled her seventh medieval puzzler "An Owen Archer and Lucie Wilton Mystery," as husband and wife face an equal number of trials and tribulations. Owen is back in his native Wales when the father-in-law who'd been accompanying him dies after receiving a vision at the shrine of St. Non's Well. Arranging for Sir Robert's tomb delays Owen's return to England. Then Cynog, the mason sculpting Sir Robert's portrait, apparently hangs himself, prolonging the delay. When the Archdeacon of St. David's demands that Owen investigate Cynog's death, the delay looks as if it may last forever. As Owen, far from the settled life he leads in England, sorts out power struggles among the English, Welsh, and French, he is drawn to the rebel cause. While her husband flirts with conspirators, Lucie faces temptations no less complex. Her widowed neighbor, Roger Moreton, gives her support when an apothecary customer accuses Lucie of poisoning her. Moreton also lends his mysterious new steward, Harold Galfrey, to Lucie when she must go to her father's estate and help her ailing aunt cope with Sir Robert's death and an armed robbery. Among Lucie's other challenges are a senile aunt plagued by a lost document, her servant's love for her aunt's wounded steward, and her son's adolescence. When Owen finally returns, the couple reunites amid confusion and violence. Even Homer spared Penelope from forever unraveling knots. Now that Owen is home, pray that Robb (A Gift of Sanctuary, 1998, etc.) will find less distracting and complicated plots for her heroic pair. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Early summer 1371, and Owen Archer is delayed in Wales by the death of his father-in-law. He encounters an old acquaintance, a mercenary called Wirthir, who wants Owen to work for him.
Robb should have subtitled her seventh medieval puzzler "An Owen Archer and Lucie Wilton Mystery," as husband and wife face an equal number of trials and tribulations. Owen is back in his native Wales when the father-in-law who'd been accompanying him dies after receiving a vision at the shrine of St. Non's Well. Arranging for Sir Robert's tomb delays Owen's return to England. Then Cynog, the mason sculpting Sir Robert's portrait, apparently hangs himself, prolonging the delay. When the Archdeacon of St. David's demands that Owen investigate Cynog's death, the delay looks as if it may last forever. As Owen, far from the settled life he leads in England, sorts out power struggles among the English, Welsh, and French, he is drawn to the rebel cause. While her husband flirts with conspirators, Lucie faces temptations no less complex. Her widowed neighbor, Roger Moreton, gives her support when an apothecary customer accuses Lucie of poisoning her. Moreton also lends his mysterious new steward, Harold Galfrey, to Lucie when she must go to her father's estate and help her ailing aunt cope with Sir Robert's death and an armed robbery. Among Lucie's other challenges are a senile aunt plagued by a lost document, her servant's love for her aunt's wounded steward, and her son's adolescence. When Owen finally returns, the couple reunites amid confusion and violence. Even Homer spared Penelope from forever unraveling knots. Now that Owen is home, pray that Robb (A Gift of Sanctuary, 1998, etc.) will find less distracting and complicated plots for her heroic pair. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Early summer 1371, and Owen Archer is delayed in Wales by the death of his father-in-law. He encounters an old acquaintance, a mercenary called Wirthir, who wants Owen to work for him.
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On a May day that hinted at summer, such a day on which the people of York rejoiced in opening their doors to the warm, fresh air and found excuses to walk along the river in the sunshine, or to walk out onto the Strays to check on their grazing animals, Lucie Wilton and her adopted son, Jasper, were shut up in the apothecary, staring down at the mound of dried herbs a customer had just returned. Read the first page
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On a May day that hinted at summer, such a day on which the people of York rejoiced in opening their doors to the warm, fresh air and found excuses to walk along the river in the sunshine, or to walk out onto the Strays to check on their grazing animals, Lucie Wilton and her adopted son, Jasper, were shut up in the apothecary, staring down at the mound of dried herbs a customer had just returned. Read the first page
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