The Riddle of St. Leonard's

By Candace M. Robb

Subjects: Mystery, Archer, owen (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, 14th centuryGiallo Middle Ages, England, fiction, Owen Archer Mystery, Medieval, England, Literature Stories, Fiction, historical, general, #5 Series, Murder, Fiction, Historical, Plague, Government investigators, Adult, History, Candace M. Robb

Description: **Candace Robb is an English historical novelist, whose works are set in medieval England.** "***Medieval York is wrapped in a dangerous riddle that only Owen Archer can unfurl.*** The fetid summer heat of 1369 has the citizens of York besieging Owen Archer's apothecary wife, Lucie, for physicks against noxious vapors. But ***than pestilence is in the air**. Owen is summoned to investigate the theft of rare treasures from St. Leonard's Hospital and the untimely deaths of aging patients. ***What links a brutal robbery, a fatal fire, a lay sister some still call whore, and a homeless urchin who shoots an arrow as straight as Owen himself?*** Country lore and town gossip lead him deep into the past, toward a killer with a heart blacker than the plague itself ..."--Bk Cvr