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Heart of Ice (Hawkenlye Mysteries 9)

By: Alys Clare
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN: 0340831162
ISBN-13: 9780340831168
Released: 26 Jul 2007
RRP: £6.99
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Alys Clare's Books are Always Worth Reading - By: J. Chippindale, 21 Dec 2006
Alys Clare's novels are like a breath of fresh air. I love medieval murder mysteries & there are certainly a lot of them about (thank goodness), but the authors books breathe new life into the period & her will they won't they situation with Helewise & Sir Josse, holds the reader's attention as well. Don't be swayed into thinking that these books are written with the female reader in mind. They are for everybody, young & old, male or female. Alys Clare lives in Kent where the Hawkenlye mysteries are set.

The year is 1194 & the winter weather is becoming increasingly bitter. A sick man is making is way to Hawkenlye Abbey where he hopes to obtain a cure for his illness by taking the Holy Water at the Abbey. In his delirium, the Virgin Mary appears before him, a miraculous sighting that is on a part with the sighting that led to the establishment of the Abbey. As the figure of a beautiful woman approaches the sick man he begins to pray, but she strikes him with a club & then rolls him into a ditch.

It is only when the winter thaw begins that the corpse is discovered. Everything points to the sick man being from France, as he has papers on him & tha Abbess asks Sir Josse d'Aquin if he can decipher them. Meanwhile the two travellers who found the body falll ill & the sickness bears a strong resemblance to the plague . . .