At last Hildegard, the Abbot and his two militant monks are off to the Abbey of Meaux.\u00a0 Home at last and all joy, you might think.\u00a0 But no, they meet a cortege even before they reach the abbey and Hubert is in a cold rage about the death of one of his mentors.\u00a0 Hildegard, glad to be back in her nunnery with Agnetha looking after things, is distraught to hear that Ulf, Lord Roger’s steward and her old childhood sweetheart, is about to be hanged for murder.\u00a0 What has been happening while they’ve been away in the south?\u00a0 It takes forensically minded Brother Gregory to join forces with Hildegard and Pierrekyn Haverel to attemept to sort things out.\u00a0 But how can Ulf be saved?\u00a0 Who murdered Brother Alcuin – and more importantly, why should such a harmless old scribe be a victim?\u00a0 And more, who is behind it all?\u00a0 While autumn mists wreath the abbey Hildegard is threatened with excommunicaton and King Richard’s enemies run the country as they wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At last Hildegard, the Abbot and his two militant monks are off to the Abbey of Meaux.\u00a0 Home at last and all joy, you might think.\u00a0 But no, they meet a cortege even before they reach the abbey and Hubert is in a cold rage about the death of one of his mentors.\u00a0 Hildegard, glad to be back in her nunnery with Agnetha looking after things, is distraught to hear that Ulf, Lord Roger’s steward and her old childhood sweetheart, is about to be hanged for murder.\u00a0 What has been happening while they’ve been away in the south?\u00a0 It takes<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}