The secrets of the Black Canons
By: Iris Collier
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780750528047
Subjects: Nicholas Peverell (Fictitious character); Fiction; History
Description: The date is September 1538. Having been left a widower by Jane Seymour's death, Henry VIII is looking for a new wife. Cromwell has put forward the Princess of Cleves, a marriage that will bring Henry an alliance with the Protestant princes of Europe. Meanwhile near to Nicholas Peverell's Sussex estate, the body of a young girl is found washed up on the shore. At first it is feared she has taken her own life but, in his capacity as justice of the peace, Nicholas soon comes to the conclusion that Sarah Bowman has been murdered. A skilled needlewoman, Sarah had worked at the nearby Augustinian priory of Monksmere until Henry had ransacked the monasteries and ordered their dissolution. But, despite a hefty reward offered for information regarding Sarah's murder, the people of Monksmere seem reluctant to talk, especially about anything regarding the former occupants of the priory - the mysterious order of clerics known as the Black Canons ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Piatkus, 2006.