Murder 'Midst Merriment
About this ebook
Of course, if anyone is unable to keep up with the times, it’s going to be Brother Hermitage.
Now nominated for the CWA 2024 Historical Dagger award.
Influencers, the nature of truth, state propaganda? And all nearly 1,000 years ago. Some things never change.
When conflicting versions of the Norman Conquest are offered to the people of Derby, Brother Hermitage is in the audience to hear both sides.
But, if Brother Hermitage is in the audience, someone is at serious risk of ending up less alive than they used to be.
As Wat and Cwen the weavers point out, Brother Hermitage, the King’s Investigator of murder, after all, was standing right there when the deed was done. How can he not know who did it?
Well, he will simply have to investigate as he always does, and the facts will be revealed.
Unfortunately, everyone seems to have their own version of the facts and they can’t all be right.
When even the liars are lying about their lies, and the people who know the truth don’t know that they know it, things are bound to be confusing.
But someone has been shot. With a bow and arrow, a rare item in Anglo-Saxon Derby. Someone must have seen something. And in this case, everyone is talking. They just aren’t saying anything reliable.
Never fear. Brother Hermitage will knock this investigation on the head. Unless someone knocks him on the head first, of course.
Non mitterent nuncio, as Hermitage might say. Don’t shoot the messenger. Oh, too late.
The 29th Chronicle of Brother Hermitage carries the familiar warning; if you like your historical mysteries serious and sombre, look away now.
5* Hilarious medieval murder
5* Another hysterical masterpiece
5* Good humour and funny, clever characters
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About the author
Howard of Warwick: the world's best-selling author of medieval crime comedy.
And now an official No. 1 Best Seller around the globe...
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Unfortunately, Howard has written his name in some of them....
"Very, very good indeed... brilliant" BBC Coventry and Warwick.
Over 150,000 have graced his bookstall and more than 1,000 reviewers say things like "hilarious", "laugh out loud funny" and "stupid".
Howard is simply a humble chronicler with the blind luck to stumble upon the Brother Hermitage manuscripts. This young monk is clearly the archetype for many characters down the centuries but somehow, over the intervening years, those later figures started to know what they were doing. Brother Hermitage is more like Cadfael meets Clouseau.
Howard's work has been heard, seen and read, most of it accompanied by laughter and some of it by money. His peers have even seen fit to recognise his unworthy efforts with a prize for making up stories.
There are so many tales that they're starting to get out of hand: 31 Chronicles of Brother Hermitage, 3 historical "re-creations", a little something for Christmas and even some free short stories.
There is a dedicated web page www.Howardofwarwick.com. Dedicated to what, is a good question.
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