Candle Flame

Name: Candle Flame
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Doherty
ISBN: 9781407976044

Author: Paul Doherty

Series: Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan #13

Narrator: Terry Wale

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 10/01/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

February 1381. London lies frozen in the grip of one of the bitterest winters on record. The ever-rising taxes demanded by the Regent, John of Gaunt, are causing increasing resentment among the city's poor. When the seething unrest boils over into a bloody massacre at a splendid Southwark tavern, in which nine people, including Gaunt's tax collectors, their military escort and the prostitutes entertaining them, are brutally murdered, the furious Regent orders Brother Athelstan to get to the bottom of the matter.

About Paul Doherty

Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He is now headmaster of a school in north-east London and lives with his family in Essex.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jazzysmum

Another twisty plot for this one, set mainly in and around The Candle Flame public house. Again we have murder, but by more than one person, and in different settings. Which took our intrepid Friar some picking apart. Of course we are given a good look into how bleak and cruel life could be in this ti......more

Goodreads review by Barefoot Gypsy

This was a good look one to read!!! A great mystery!!! It's freezing ass cold an more murders going on at the Candle Flame Inn. Athelstan an old Jack the corner have quite a bit more on there hands. Always impressed on the description of old London's poor side of town.......more

Goodreads review by Jane

Where I got the book: review copy provided by the publisher. This medieval murder mystery, set in 1381, takes us to the restless, dangerous Southwark district of London where a massacre is committed in the Barbican, the ancient keep adjoining the Candle-Flame tavern. John of Gaunt’s poll tax collecto......more

Goodreads review by Clemens

The 13th volume of the fantastic Brother Athelstan series is certainly another one to treasure. As always Paul Doherty has managed to bring London in the late 14th Century vividly to life with it's own feel and atmosphere of these medieval times. The storytelling is again of the highest quality and th......more

Goodreads review by Judy

I have seen these historical mystery novels featuring the Dominican friar Brother Athelstan and the Lord High Coroner in the City of London, Sir John Cranston and have even bought several of the books, but just haven’t gotten around to reading them yet. This 13th book in the series was as good a pla......more