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Synopsis
One of our premier historical novelists introduces a series of marvelous medieval mysteries featuring Justin de Quincy, Eleanor of Acquitaine's trusted detective.Full of swordplay, bawdy byplay, and derring-do. -- The Philadelphia InquirerPenman writes about the medieval world and its people with vigor, compassion and clarity. -- San Francisco ChronicleEpiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Acquitaine's beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, perhaps dead, and the court whispers that her younger son John is plotting to seize the crown.Meanwhile, on the snowy highroad from Winchester, a fortuneless young man falls heir to a bloodstained letter, pressed into his hand by a dying man. The missive becomes Justin de Quincy's passport into the queen's confidence -- and into the heart of danger, as he pursues a brutal and cunning murderer and jousts with secret traitors in Eleanor's court.With the same sure touch she has brought to her historical fiction, Sharon Kay Penman turns to the mystery form in The Queen's Man, her most exciting novel yet.Book Details
Published
January 1, 2003
Publisher
Tandem Library
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780613376396