Book description
When a young nun, Joanna Calverley, dies of fever in the town of
Beverley, they waste no time in burying her, fearing the plague. But
nine months later a woman turns up claiming to be Joanna, saying she
faked her own death. When murder follows close on her heels, John
Thoresby, Archbishop of York, knows he must enlist the help of his
favourite detective, Owen Archer. While Owen sets off for Leeds and
Scarborough to speak with the Percy family and Geoffrey Chaucer, who is
spying for the King, his wife Lucie tries to discover from Joanna the
events of her missing year. Soldiers fleeing to France, relic-trading
and incest are just a few of the secrets which emerge.
