Unabridged Audiobook
This is the second book by Bruce Holsinger and his principal character, John Gower.(Now buy and read the first as well... just do it) Gower, it turns out, is a friend of Geoffrey Chaucer in the London of the late middle ages. Both these characters actually lived (well who hasn't heard of Chaucer) and were in fact friends and writers (and historically complex characters of their or any age). Gower makes a convincing detective. Shrewd, determined to turn a few coins from the craven, the foolish or the corrupt. Think Philip Marlow in Medieval England. That Holsinger is an accomplished historian insures that the reader is in for a well written mystery that along the way makes the characters and their times come alive, accurately and menacing alive on occasion. . Simon Vance needs no introduction as a narrator. He is well suited to this book and it's characters. Do get this book and it's predecessor. And do enjoy the dark alleys of Medieval London. Holsinger and Gower couldn't be better guides.
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