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Scots are gathering in Murdoch Kerr's Edinburgh tavern, plotting to drive out the English forces. Margaret takes her place there as innkeeper, collecting information to pass on to William Wallace-until murder gives the English an excuse to shutter the tavern. The dead man was a witness to the intruders who raided chests belonging to Margaret's husband and her father, the latest in a string of violent raids on Margaret's family, but no one knows the identity of the raiders or what they're show more searching for. Margaret's uncle urges her to escape Edinburgh, but as she flees north with her husband Roger, Margaret grows suspicious about his sudden wish to speak with her mother, Christiana, who is a soothsayer. Margaret once innocently shared with Roger one of Christiana's visions, of 'the true king of Scotland' riding into Edinburgh. Now she begins to wonder if their trip is part of a mission engineered by the English crown... show lessTags
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Mentre gli inglesi tengono sotto scacco la città di Edimburgo, Margaret Kerr ha sposato la causa dei ribelli scozzesi. Ma una strana morte e ambigue trame che coinvolgono i membri della sua famiglia risvegliano il suo istinto per le indagini.
Da un'autrice bestseller, un nuovo caso sullo sfondo di una Scozia affascinante e misteriosa.
Da un'autrice bestseller, un nuovo caso sullo sfondo di una Scozia affascinante e misteriosa.
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Candace Robb lives in Seattle, Washington. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- The Fire in the Flint
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Margaret Kerr
- Important events
- War of Independence, 1285-1371
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- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 12
- ASINs
- 4
