The Maiden Bell (Thomas the Falconer)
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780727862938
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Mystery & Detective - Historical; English Historical Fiction; English Mystery & Suspense Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; 16th century; Berkshire (England); Cultural Region/British Isles; England; Falconers; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery/ Detective; Investigation; Murder; Historical - General; Mystery & Detective - General; Detective and mystery stories; Elizabeth, 1558-1603; Great Britain; History; Thomas the Falconer (Fictitious character)
Description: Summer 1593; plague rages in London, and the people of southern England watch anxiously as the infection spreads. Meanwhile in rural Berkshire, there is great excitement in the isolated village of Lambourn, where a family of itinerant bell-founders has arrived to forge a new church bell. But the peace of a warm summer's night is brutally shattered when one of the churchwardens - a kindly old man without any enemies - is found dead in the woods. Unease stalks the Downlands; ancient superstitions surface along with old hostilities, and Thomas the Falconer is charged by his master to restore order. But despite attempts to cover up the churchwarden's death, he soon realizes he seeks a murderer.