![]() Finally, the relic is dispatched to London, where it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous book dealer and where Philip Gooden s Nick Revill will determine its ultimate fate. Once more, as Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael are to discover, The Tainted Relic has a crucial part to play. Thirty years on, suspicious deaths occur in Cambridge during a contentious debate about Holy Blood relics. Michael Jecks Sir Baldwin Furnshill has reason to suspect the relic s involvement in at least five violent deaths. Oxford, 1269: the discovery of a decapitated monk leads Ian Morson s academic sleuth William Falconer to uncover a link to the relic. Investigating the death, Bernard Knightâs protagonist, Crowner John, learns of the relic s dark history. Several decades pass, and the Cross turns up in the possession of a dealer robbed and murdered en route to Glastonbury. The relic is said to be cursed: anyone who touches it will meet a gruesome end as soon as it leaves their possession. Amidst the chaos, an English knight named Geoffrey Mappestone is entrusted with a precious religious relic: a piece of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ. July, 1100: Jerusalem has fallen to the Crusader armies, the Holy City lies ransacked. ![]() In five interlinked chronological tales and a prologue, a brilliant cast of medieval sleuths pursues the bloody mystery of a relic both powerful and cursed a fragment of the True Cross. ![]() ![]() A spellbinding collaboration from six masters of the medieval mystery. ![]()
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