The red velvet turnshoe
By: Cassandra Clark
Series: An abbess of Meaux mystery -- 2; Abbess of Meaux mystery -- 2; Abbess of Mieux mystery; An Abbess of Meaux mystery; An Abbess of Meaux mystery -- bk. 2; Abbess of Meaux mystery -- 02; Abbess of Meaux mystery -- 2.; Abbess of Meaux mystery
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781848540293; 9780719522819; 9780719522918
Subjects: Nuns; Fiction; Christian antiquities; History
Description: Black February 1383: rain started to fall before Martinmas. It brought floods, famine and finally death. Into this watery world, against the backdrop of plague and war, the nun, Hildegard, is sent across Europe in search of a precious relic, the Cross of Constantine.