The Grim Reaper (A Crowner John Mystery Series)
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May, 1195. Sir John de Wolfe is summoned at dawn to inspect a corpse that has been discovered in Exeter's cathedral precinct. Aaron of Salisbury, a Jewish money-lender, has been found dead, his head enveloped in a brown leather money bag, a scrap of folded parchment clutched in his hand. On it is written: "And Jesus went into the temple and overthrew the tables of the money-changers." This is just the beginning of a strange series of murders in which an apt biblical text is left at the scene of the crime. Setting out to track down a literate and Bible-learned killer in an age when only one percent of the population can read or write, Sir John deduces that he is looking for a homicidal priest.
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Medieval England is powerfully evoked in these gritty forensic investigations, with Sir John de Wolfe, Devon's first county coroner, at the heart of each riveting tale.
The Grim Reaper (A Crowner John Mystery Series)
The Grim Reaper (A Crowner John Mystery Series),Bernard Knight,Pocket Books,0671029673,Crime & mystery,English Mystery & Suspense Fiction,Fiction,Fiction - Mystery/ Detective,Mystery & Detective - General,Mystery & Detective - Historical,Mystery/Suspense,ENGLAND_FICTION,FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL,Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
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