The Lady Chapel, Candace Robb
The Lady Chapel, Candace Robb
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The Lady Chapel

Author: Candace Robb

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 11 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/14/2017

Synopsis

Summer in the year of our Lord 1365. On the night after the Corpus Christi procession, a man is brutally murdered on the steps of York Minster. The next morning his severed hand is found in a room at the York Tavern—a room hastily vacated by a fellow guild member who had quarreled with the victim.

Archbishop Thoresby calls on Owen Archer to investigate. As Owen tracks the fleeing merchant, he uncovers a conspiracy involving a powerful company of traders, but his only witness is a young boy who has gone into hiding, and his only suspect is a mysterious cloaked woman. When Owen discovers a link between the traders and a powerful coterie in the royal court, he brings his apothecary wife Lucie into the race to find the boy before he is silenced forever by the murderers.

About Candace Robb

Candace Robb did her graduate work in medieval literature and history, and has continued to study the period while working first as an editor of scientific publications and now for some years as a freelance writer.

Candace has published fifteen crime novels set in fourteenth-century England, Wales, and Scotland. The Owen Archer series is based in York and currently extends over ten novels beginning with The Apothecary Rose; the most recent is A Vigil Of Spies. The Margaret Kerr trilogy explores the early days of Scotland's struggle against England's King Edward I, and includes A Trust Betrayed, The Fire In The Flint, and A Cruel Courtship.

Candace was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has lived most of her adult life in Seattle, Washington, which she and her husband love for its combination of natural beauty and culture. Candace enjoys walking, hiking, and gardening, and practices yoga and vipassana meditation. She travels frequently to Great Britain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine on August 28, 2020

It has been over a year since I read the first Owen Archer book. No idea why it has taken so long to get back to this series. Really enjoy the setting in the mid-14th Century, and also many of the characters. One thing about Candace Robb, she is a history expert and she imbues her books with many hi......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on February 15, 2023

Owen Archer is the focus of this series placed in England during the reign of Edward III. Owen (in the first book, which you might want to read before this one) has married Lucie, York’s widow apothecary, and splits his time between learning the trade and working for the Archbishop of York. That man......more

Goodreads review by Clemens on December 29, 2020

This 2nd instalment of the "Owen Archer" series, from the US author, Candace Robb, has been a much better accomplished adventure than the first one. Storytelling is of a top-notch quality, all characters, whether real historical or wonderful fictional, come vividly to life within this great medieval......more

Goodreads review by Gintautas on February 16, 2023

Va, kitas reikalas. Kažkas autorei papasakojo, kad pirmuose puslapiuose atskleisti nusikaltėlį ir nusikaltimo motyvus – ne pats geriausias būdas rašyti detektyvą. Ir štai gauname viską, kas priklauso – iš pradžių nusikaltimas, paskui siūlo galo vyniojimas po truputį atskleidžiant detales ir dėliojan......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on November 03, 2019

The 14th century politics are satisfyingly gripping, and the characterization is well done.......more

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