Oathbreaker
By: Martin Jensen ; translated by Tara F. Chace
Contributors: Chace, Tara, translator
Series: King's hounds -- 02
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781477817360
Subjects: Murder; Fiction; Investigation; Monks; Death; Monasteries
Description: Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are guests in a monastery when they're awakened in the middle of the night and asked to solve a crime. A monk praying in the church has been brutally murdered, and his severed hand offers the first clue of a motive. As they investigate who could have committed such a heinous atrocity, and why, Halfdan and Winston must negotiate bitter rivalries within the monastery's hierarchy, a sensitive class structure, and the tension between the new laws King Cnut has sworn to uphold and the codes of honor that precede them.
Notes: "Oathbreaker was first published in Danish in 2011. Translated from the Danish by Tara F. Chace. Published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2014."--T.p. verso.