Showing results for "Simon" in Medieval

In the isolated village of Lambourn there is great excitement when a family of itinerant bell-founders arrives to forge a new church bell. Thomas the Falconer is charged by his master to find answers, but instead finds himself trying to restore order in the community when the village constable is also found dead. As panic ensues, Thomas does what he does best - following the trail and hunting his prey.

France, 1351: Kemp and his men are captured in a skirmish near Calais, and subsequently imprisoned in a French castle. All attempts at escape are punished with death. Then Sir Hugues de Beauconray comes to Kemp with an offer: escort a Dominican friar on a quest to steal a mysterious book from an abbey in Scotland. Fail, and ten of Kemp's friends will be hanged.

Intrigas, secretos y amoríos en la cambiante Europa de 1492. La novela muestra un amplio abanico de personajes que viven algunos de los hechos más característicos de la época. Fray Genaro recorrerá el Atlántico con Cristóbal Colón, en su viaje a las Indias. Un pintor italiano verá su vida mezclada con el misterio de un asesinato. Y mientras, en el Vaticano, un cambio de papado hará tambalear los cimientos de la cristiandad.