The Demon's Parchment by Jeri Westerson | 493.65 KB
English | 276 Pages
Title: The Demon's Parchment
Author: Jeri Westerson
Year: 2015
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In fourteenth century London, Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight convicted of treason and stripped of his land, title and his honor. He has become known as the "Tracker"-a man who can find anything, can solve any puzzle and, with the help of his apprentice, Jack Tucker, an orphaned street urchin with a thief 's touch-will do so for a price. But this time, even Crispin is wary of taking on his most recent client. Jacob of Provencal is a Jewish physician at the King's court, even though all Jews were expelled from England nearly a century before. Jacob wants Crispin to find stolen parchments that might be behind the recent, ongoing, gruesome murders of young boys, parchments that someone might have used to bring forth a demon which now stalks the streets and alleys of London.
From Publishers Weekly
Westerson's third 14th-century historical featuring disgraced knight Crispin Guest (after 2009's Serpent in the Thorns) is the best yet in the series, though the plotting and characterization remain a cut below that of, say, a master of the medieval subgenre like Susanna Gregory. Guest, who's developed a reputation as "the Tracker," pursues two cases: a Jewish doctor, Jacob of Provençal, retains him to recover some lost Hebrew manuscripts, and the sheriff of London asks for his help to trace a serial killer who's strangled and eviscerated four young boys. In the course of his inquiries, Guest encounters a hulking figure who may be the legendary golem, a creature molded from clay to protect the Jewish community. Those who may regard the serial killer story line as anachronistic will find a real-life model, Gilles de Rais, cited in the author's afterword.
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From Booklist
Crispin Guest was a landowner and knight until a treason charge stripped him of everything. Now he ekes out a living as a sort of medieval private eye. Here, in his third outing, a physician at the king's court asks Crispin to locate missing documents that could be connected with a rash of murders. There's no shortage of mysteries set in the medieval period, but since the era lasted about a thousand years, there's always room for more. Especially when they're this good: a solid plot and cast of characters, a feel for the story's place and time (fourteenth-century England), and an appealing noirish air. A welcome addition to the medieval-mystery landscape. --David Pitt
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In fourteenth century London, Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight convicted of treason and stripped of his land, title and his honor. He has become known as the "Tracker"-a man who can find anything, can solve any puzzle and, with the help of his apprentice, Jack Tucker, an orphaned street urchin with a thief 's touch-will do so for a price. But this time, even Crispin is wary of taking on his most recent client. Jacob of Provencal is a Jewish physician at the King's court, even though all Jews were expelled from England nearly a century before. Jacob wants Crispin to find stolen parchments that might be behind the recent, ongoing, gruesome murders of young boys, parchments that someone might have used to bring forth a demon which now stalks the streets and alleys of London.
From Publishers Weekly
Westerson's third 14th-century historical featuring disgraced knight Crispin Guest (after 2009's Serpent in the Thorns) is the best yet in the series, though the plotting and characterization remain a cut below that of, say, a master of the medieval subgenre like Susanna Gregory. Guest, who's developed a reputation as "the Tracker," pursues two cases: a Jewish doctor, Jacob of Provençal, retains him to recover some lost Hebrew manuscripts, and the sheriff of London asks for his help to trace a serial killer who's strangled and eviscerated four young boys. In the course of his inquiries, Guest encounters a hulking figure who may be the legendary golem, a creature molded from clay to protect the Jewish community. Those who may regard the serial killer story line as anachronistic will find a real-life model, Gilles de Rais, cited in the author's afterword.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Crispin Guest was a landowner and knight until a treason charge stripped him of everything. Now he ekes out a living as a sort of medieval private eye. Here, in his third outing, a physician at the king's court asks Crispin to locate missing documents that could be connected with a rash of murders. There's no shortage of mysteries set in the medieval period, but since the era lasted about a thousand years, there's always room for more. Especially when they're this good: a solid plot and cast of characters, a feel for the story's place and time (fourteenth-century England), and an appealing noirish air. A welcome addition to the medieval-mystery landscape. --David Pitt
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