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When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge one morning, set on by an angry mob, she assumes involvement with her will be brief. She has no idea that the woman, alone but for her infant child, brings both mystery and peril. Then a devastating flood hits the fens, and among the wreckage and debris washed up at Aelf Fen is a body; Lassair, in the company of a sheriff's officer, wonders if she is dealing with murder . . .
Meanwhile, in the south, Lassair's partner Rollo is moving with relief towards the conclusion of his mission for King William in the Holy Land. But then disaster strikes, and, with the mighty forces of an emperor on his heels, abruptly he turns from hunter to hunted. In order to escape alive, he risks help from a stranger, and embarks on a voyage that turns out to be far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined.|When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge, set on by an angry mob, she assumes involvement with her will be brief. She has no idea that the woman, alone but for her infant child, brings both mystery and peril. Then a devastating flood hits the fens, and among the wreckage and debris washed up at Aelf Fen is a body . . .
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- ISBN: 9781780105857
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November 17, 2014
At the start of Clare’s impeccably paced sixth Aelf Fen novel (after 2013’s Land of the Silver Dragon), apprentice healer Lassair helps rescue a foreign woman and her infant son from a mob in Cambridge in the fall of 1093. When Lassair and the sheriff’s man, Jack Chevestrier, later go looking for the woman’s missing family members, receding flood waters reveal a body that raises suspicions of murder. Meanwhile, Lassair’s Norman lover, Rollo, is on a covert mission to Miklagard (modern Istanbul) and the Holy Land for King William. New Age fans will appreciate how Lassair employs a “shining stone” to see events occurring elsewhere. As she grows more confident using the stone’s power, she becomes more assertive within her extended family and community. Clare does a good job generating tension by shifting the narrative in between England and Byzantium. Adding period flavor are the religious feelings characters evince at the beginning of the Crusades. -
December 15, 2014
Clare offers another installment in her atmospheric historical series set in the fens of eleventh-century England. Lassair, the young healer, is in Cambridge when she sees a veiled noblewoman with a baby being harassed by an angry mob. Lassair and her teacher rescue the woman, who refuses to reveal much about herself except that her husband is dead and she's come to the fens to find his wealthy family. Then, after a terrible storm, the drowned body of a young woman is found lodged against a bridge. Apparently she's a victim of the storm, but Lassair's intuition suggests otherwise. The investigation is led by lawman Jack Chevestrier; guiltily, Lassair, whose true love, Rollo, is far away in Constantinople, finds herself attracted to him. As the two struggle to unravel the mysteries, they have no idea that their search will link to Rollo's quest. Clare's grasp of the social customs and political and religious struggles of the timecombined with her knack of weaving a mesmerizing storymakes this new Aelf Fen installment a winner.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)
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