And when he learns that a charming, handsome nobleman ordered a piece of that very pie, Josse is convinced that the poison was meant for this upper class guest, and not for the poor stranger who died alone in Anne’s guest chamber. When Josse discovers wolf’s bane in the remnants of the pie, he knows that someone must have tampered with Anne’s cooking. He rides off to the scene of the crime and starts his own investigation. Josse has been a regular visitor to Goody Anne’s, and he hates to think that Anne or her fine cooking has fallen suspect. Josse d’Acquin, a knight with a knack for solving mysteries, is troubled by the news of the stranger’s death. But while Anne’s serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber poisoned by a piece of pie made by Goody Anne herself.

This is the first in a series of medieval mysteries set in the Weald of Kent.Īt the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne’s inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. AUTHORBIO: ALYS CLARE lives in Tonbridge, England, in the area where Fortune Like the Moon is set. But the shocking truth of Gunnora’s death is an elusive and far more dangerous prize.

Their one precious piece of evidence is a gold, rubied cross. With the help of the worldly, beautiful Abbess Helewise, Josse ferrets out an array of suspects. But when Josse d’Acquin, the king’s knight, arrives from France to investigate, he discovers treacherous currents of lust, greed, and anger flowing closer to the Abbey, and in the haunted Weald of Kent, whose woods hide strange secrets…

Felons have been released from English prisons at the command of the new king, Richard Plantagenet, and suspicion centers on them. Thus the body of Gunnora, a young nun from Hawkenlye Abbey, is found with her throat cut. Sunlight shone on the dark crimson blood, making it shine like a jewel… IN A SACRED PLACE, UNHOLY PASSIONS LEAD TO MURDER…

A Shadowed Evil by Alys Clare