Oathbreaker

Name: Oathbreaker
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Martin Jensen
ISBN: 9781480578159

Author: Martin Jensen, Tara F. Chace

Series: The King's Hounds #2

Narrator: Martin Jensen

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 03/04/2014

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are guests in a monastery when they’re awakened in the middle of the night and asked to solve a crime. A monk praying in the church has been brutally murdered, and his severed hand offers the first clue of a motive. As they investigate who could have committed such a heinous atrocity—and why—Halfdan and Winston must negotiate bitter rivalries within the monastery’s hierarchy, a sensitive class structure, and the tension between the new laws King Cnut has sworn to uphold and the codes of honor that precede them. With peace in England on shaky ground and the king’s favor of paramount importance, Halfdan and Winston follow a precarious path toward answers that no one is sure they want. This second novel in Martin Jensen’s acclaimed King’s Hounds series delves deeply into a chaotic world where alliances change, but oaths are forever.

About Martin Jensen

Bestselling Danish novelist Martin Jensen was born in 1946 and worked as a teacher and a headmaster in Sweden and Denmark before becoming a full-time writer in 1996. The author of twenty-one novels, he has been honored by the Danish Crime Academy twice and was awarded the Royal Library’s Prize for his medieval novel Soldiers’ Whore. He and his wife are botany enthusiasts who also enjoy bird-watching and gathering mushrooms.

Reviews

Goodreads review by HBalikov

Okay, put me down as guilty. When I learned that Martin Jensen's second book in "The King's Hounds" series had been translated, I had to acquire it. When, as a devote of monastery murders a la Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael), I learned the subject of this adventure, I had to drop other things over th......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

Seems as though there are just two books in this series? Wishing there was another one to dive into as I am interested in the time period and historical figures true to time and place. However - for historical fiction, these books are modern language and also reflect modern attitudes. Not such a pro......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are drawn into another mystery when Winston takes on a commission and while traveling, stop at a church where soon, one of the monks is murdered. They must consider the monks themselves, the two Benedictine monks that hired Winston and who have a riva......more

Goodreads review by Jim

4.5. Strong historical mystery......more