Entries from Westport Public Library BOOK blog tagged with 'medieval'
The Mystery Reader’s Tale
The Usual Suspects Mystery Reading Group will be discussing The Sempster's Tale by Margaret Frazer next Sunday, the 12th, at two. New faces are always welcome. To reserve a copy of the book, call 291-4821. Dame Frevisse, a medieval Benedictine nun, seeks to recover the gold of a murdered Duke, aided by a sempster ("seamstress," as explained in an author's note, didn't come into use until the 1600s) and her Jewish lover. Their mission is jeopardized when a crucified body stirs up anti-Semitic sentiment. The medieval mystery is an ever-expanding sub-genre.Killer historical mysteries
The 2008 Agatha nomineeshave been announced and author Kathy Lynn Emerson’s book, How to Write a Killer Historical Mystery, is on the Best Non-fiction list. The core of the book is Emerson’s personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries, but it also includes practical advice, anecdotes, and suggestions for research from over forty other historical mystery writers and insights from assorted editors, booksellers, and reviewers. As the author of two popular historical mystery series, the Face Down Mysteries featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman herbalist Susanna, Lady Appleton, and the Diana Spaulding Mysteries, set in 1888 in various U.S. locations featuring journalist Diana Spaulding, she certainly knows her stuff.Positively medieval
The latest addition to the celebrity detective list is none other than Dante Alighieri, newly installed Prior of the city of Florence, who is searching for shards of evidence in The Mosaic Crimes by Giulio Leoni.
It is June, 1300. Ambrogio, a master mosaicist has been found tortured and murdered, his face covered with quicklime.
While making enquiries about the dead artist, Dante is welcomed by the Third Heaven, a group of scholar-philosophers who discuss theology, philosophy, and question the workings of the powerful and mysterious Knights Templar.
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