The sanctity of hate [eBook - NC Digital Library] : Medieval mysteries series, book 9

The Summer Of 1276 At Tyndal Priory Is Passing Peacefully Until A Villager's Corpse Is Found Floating In The Millpond. The Murder Victim, A Newcomer, Was Greatly Disliked In Tyndal. Yet No Villager Wants To See One Of Their Own Hanged For The Deed. Fingers Quickly Point To A Trio Of Jewish Refugees - Husband, Mother-in-law, And Very Pregnant Wife - Forced To Take Shelter While Relocating Under The Provisions Of King Edward's Statute Of The Jewry. Riots Loom; Threats Against The Jews Mount. Eleanor And Ralf Have Little Time To Gather Evidence Before Popular Opinion Rules The Murder Solved. But When The Prioress' Maid Gytha Joins The Suspect List, The Inquiry Takes An Even More Troubling Turn. Murder Investigations Are Always Grim, But This One Grows As Ominous As A North Sea Storm.... The murder victim, a newcomer, was disliked in Tyndal village, and no one wants one of their own hanged for the deed. Fingers quickly point to a Jewish family, refugees under the relocation provisions of King Edwards Statute of the Jewry. Riots loom, threats against the family mount. Eleanor and Ralf have little time before popular opinion rules the murder solved. But did Jacob Asser really kill the man? Or was it Brother Gwydo, a new lay brother with an unknown past? These questions are difficult enough, but when Gytha, the prioress maid, joins the suspect list, the inquiry takes an even more troubling turn. Murder investigations are always grim, but this one grows as ominous as a North Sea storm. Once again, Prioress Eleanor jousts with the Prince of Darkness for the sake of justice, but this time even she wonders if unmasking the killer is something she wants to do He will take seventeen to the match - how many will he bring back? In Cibola football is a matter of life and death. Sir Tristram must reunite his Blood City teammates - Knights, Pirates and Westerners - to win the prestigious Seskie tournament against their oldest rivals. Behind the match is a bigger power play, a king's mission to bring down his greatest rival by persuasion, trickery or force. Needing a squad of soldiers as well as footballers, Sir Tristram must also find a place on tour and in his heart for the teenage child he has not addressed by name since infancy... The summer of 1276 at Tyndal Priory is passing peacefully until a villager's corpse is found floating in the millpond. A Jewish family, refugees under the 1275 Statute of the Jewry, is accused. Did Jacob ben Asser kill him or was it Gytha, the prioress' maid? Even Prioress Eleanor now wonders if she wants to unmask the killer