by Alys Clare · Hodder Paperback · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340831168
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«Heart of Ice» is the historical mystery novel by Alys Clare, published by Hodder Paperback in paperback (368 pages, in English).
In February 1194, a sick man seeking a miracle dies at Hawkenlye Abbey. When the thaw reveals a corpse with a crushed skull, Abbess Helewise commissions Sir Josse d'Acquin to identify the man; the only clue is an apothecary's remedy. Then sick people arrive with plague-like symptoms.
It is part of the Hawkenlye Mysteries series, of which it is the ninth instalment; the cover of this edition includes the subtitle «A Hawkenlye Mystery».
For readers of medieval historical mystery, with a monastic investigation in the vein of Ellis Peters.
Alys Clare is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Harris, author of English historical whodunnit novels primarily set in medieval times, featuring the characters of Abbess Helewise and Josse d'Acquin. Brought up in the countryside close to where the Hawkenlye Novels are set, she went to school in Tonbridge and later studied English at the University of Keele. She has also published books as Elizabeth Harris.
