Escape from Gernesey and a return to Derby is on everyone's mind, but events have spotted Brother Hermitage, and they're up to their usual tricks.
This time, they've put him in a priory. What could be better? And what could possibly go wrong?
The cloistered life has called him back and so all will be well.
There will be no murder here, even though he's the King's Investigator.
No one will die, ignoring the deaths that seem to follow him around.
And anyway, this is only temporary. There won't be time for anything untoward to happen.
Brother Hermitage hasn't been reading his own chronicles, has he?
While Wat and Cwen try to make the best of things and work out who to bribe to get out of this place, Hermitage doesn't even make it through the first night before the body turns up.
How it was done is a complete mystery, never mind why. And there is certainly something odd about this priory and its monks, who don't seem at all concerned that one of them is now dead.
But a route off the island quickly opens up before them, and so there might not be time to solve some murder. With any luck, they'll be miles away before long.
All they need is some money; considerably more money than they currently have.
That priory seemed to have a lot of treasure...
Embark on Chronicle number thirty-two, and your mind will be filled with wonder. (Wondering why, mainly.)
Howard of Warwick: the world's best selling author of medieval crime comedy.
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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: 28 Chronicles of Brother Hermitage, 3 historical "re-creations", a little something for Christmas and even some free short stories.
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