A Shrine of Murders

by C. L. Grace

Kathryn Swinbrooke (1)

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After the War of the Roses, Colum Murtagh is sent to Canterbury, where warlocks and wizards encourage black magic and evil prevails.

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One of the worst-written books I’ve ever read all the way through. Clumsy, adverb-burdened prose riddled with high-falutin’ malapropisms, a sloppy potluck of affected historicisms with bald anachronism, and not even a compelling mystery plot. But I had to keep reading just to watch the train wreck unfold.
1471 and there is a murderer in Canterbury. the archbishop hires Kathryn Swinbrooke to discover the murderer. She needs the help of Colum Murtagh the Commissioner of Peace, Simon Luberon and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
I like the main characters and hope they appear again. An enjoyable mystery, and start to a new series.
I love this whole series so much.

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Paul C. Doherty was born on September 21, 1946. He is an award winning British author, educator, and historian. He is also the Headmaster of Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex, in the United Kingdom. He went to Liverpool University where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in History and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he show more received a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II. Dr. Doherty is a historian who lectures for a number of organisations, particularly on historical mysteries. Dr. Doherty was awarded an Order of the British Empire for his services to education in 2011. His other career is that of Headmaster at Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex for 30 years. In 1999, the school was given Beacon status which rates it as outstanding among other schools in it's category. Dr. Doherty has published a series of historical mysteries set in the Middle Ages, Classical, Greek, and Ancient Egypt. He writes both fiction and non-fiction under his own name, both as P.C. Doherty and Paul C. Doherty, as well as the pennames: Anna Apostolou, Michael Clynes, and Ann Dukthas. Doherty is the author of several mystery series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, and the Canterbury Tales of mystery. He has written 100 published books which have been printed in several languages and distributed in several different countries including the UK, United States, Spain, and Germany. He was also awarded the Herodotus, for lifelong achievement for excellence in the writing of historical mysteries by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
A Shrine of Murders
Original title
A Shrine of Murders
Original publication date
1993
People/Characters
Kathryn Swinbrooke; Colin Murtagh
Important places
Canterbury, Kent, England, UK; Kent, England, UK
Important events
Wars of the Roses (1455 | 1485)

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6054 .O37 .S55Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000

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172
Popularity
190,027
Reviews
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(3.78)
Languages
5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Media
Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
10
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3