The local sheriff is more than happy to blame the mysterious and possibly non-existent “forest people” but when another death follows, it seems that things need sorting out. Needless to say, she’s just tripped (literally) over the corpse of a local ne’er-do-well, stabbed in the back by a flint spear – a decidedly odd choice of weapon in 1191. We skip forward two years, and Josse returns to Kent to his newly almost-built manor house and decides to pop in to see his friend at the Abbey. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.We last met Sir Josse D’Acquin and the Abbess Helewise of Hawkenlye Abbey in Fortune Like The Moon, an uncomplicated but decent little mystery set in Kent in 1189. Clare's intricate, satisfying plot and her wide array of well-drawn minor characters help put her at the forefront of the medieval mystery field.Ĭopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Those expecting naughty nuns and frolicsome friars will be disappointed. Sir Josse's respect for the abbess's intelligence and integrity is just one of his charms, while the struggle both characters go through to reconcile their religious convictions with the superstitions surrounding the night forest adds more than usual interest.
A missing novice and a second body deepen the mystery.
Determined to discover what really happened that night, Sir Josse finds evidence that the murdered man and his cohorts had more to poach than small game, and that life in the forest and life in the abbey are not as separate as they may seem. The abbess thinks the sheriff a fool, but until the arrival of her friend, enlightened knight Sir Josse d'Acquin, she must remain content with the official version of events. Abbess Helewise of neighboring Hawkenlye Abbey sends for the sheriff, who dismisses the murder as the work of the "Wild People," a strange band of wanderers who come to the forest every June, according to local lore. One summer night in the Wealden Forest, an expertly thrown spear with a well-chiseled flint point pierces the heart of a poacher. Following the success of 2000's Fortune Like the Moon, British author Clare shows in this sequel why many consider her a worthy successor to Ellis Peters.
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