"A lovingly detailed background informs and animates the plot at every
point." --KIRKUS
Perfect for fans of both Ellis Peters and CJ Sansom, THE LADY CHAPEL is
a vivid and immersive portrait of court intrigue and a testament to the
power of the medieval guilds.
Summer in the year of our Lord 1365. On the night after the Corpus
Christi procession, a man is brutally murdered on the steps of York
Minster. The next morning his severed hand is found in a room at the
York Tavern--a room hastily vacated by a fellow guild member who had
quarreled with the victim.
Archbishop Thoresby calls on Owen Archer to investigate. As Owen tracks
the fleeing merchant, he uncovers a conspiracy involving a powerful
company of traders, but his only witness is a young boy who has gone
into hiding, and his only suspect is a mysterious cloaked woman. When
Owen discovers a link between the traders and a powerful coterie in the
royal court, he brings his apothecary wife Lucie into the race to find
the boy before he is silenced forever by the murderers.