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Herald of Hell

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A medieval mystery featuring sleuthing monk Brother Athelstan

May, 1381. The Great Revolt draws ever nearer. The Upright Men openly roam the streets of London, waiting for the violence to begin. Their mysterious envoy, the Herald of Hell, appears at night all over the city, striking terror into the hearts of those who oppose them. But who is he?

When his chancery clerk is found hanged in a notorious Southwark brothel, the ruthless Thibault, John of Gaunt's Master of Secrets, summons Brother Athelstan to investigate. Did Amaury Whitfield really kill himself following a visit from the terrifying Herald of Hell? Athelstan is unconvinced.

In the dead man's possession was a manuscript containing a great secret which he had been striving to decipher. If he could only unlock the cipher and interpret the messages being carried to the so-called Herald of Hell, Athelstan would be one step closer to catching the killer. But can he crack the code before the Great Revolt begins?
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 2, 2015
      In 1381, new taxes levied on peasants have brought resentment to a fever pitch, and England’s leaders fear a revolt that will “topple both Church and Crown,” in Doherty’s solid 15th Brother Athelstan mystery (after 2014’s The Book of Fires). The Herald of Hell, an envoy of the Upright Men, the leaders of the insurrection, has been traveling around London, issuing warnings to those considered enemies of the rebels. Given the turmoil, Athelstan is naturally suspicious when chancery clerk Amaury Whitfield turns up dead. Whitfield was in the employ of Thibault, master of secrets for John of Gaunt, the kingdom’s regent, and when he’s found hanged in a locked room, Athelstan is convinced that the clerk was murdered. As always, Doherty excels in grafting a fair-play whodunit onto actual historical events, making the intrigue and fear of the period palpable while giving the astute reader a chance to solve the crime. Agent: David Headley, David Headley Literary Agency (U.K.).

    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2016

      May 1381. The Great Peasants' Revolt is about to begin, and the envoy of the Upright Men, the Herald of Hell, walks the streets at night. In his 15th adventure (after The Book of Fires), Brother Athelstan is called to a brothel to investigate a hanging that might be murder.

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      January 1, 2016
      As medieval London stands on the precipice of revolution, its citizenry is terrorized by restless bands of Upright Men inflamed by the audacity of the mysterious Herald of Hell. Stalking the grimy underbelly of the city at night, the Herald appears to be a sinister harbinger of doom. When Thibault, the ambitious John of Gaunt's Master of Secrets, summons Brother Athelstan, the savvy friar suspects the worst. Investigating the locked-room hanging of Thibault's chancery clerk, Athelstan, ably assisted by Sir John Cranston, Lord High Coroner of London, attempts to untangle a murder with its roots in a mysterious cipher that just might provide the key to both the crime and the culprit. In true Doherty fashion, the bodies pile up and the plot twists and turns before the satisfying and surprising conclusion. In addition to providing crackling whodunits, Doherty's long-running series (this is the fifteenth installment) continues to ratchet up the historical tension as actions and events move rapidly and inevitably toward the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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