May, 1195. Sir John de Wolfe is summoned at dawn to inspect a corpse that has been discovered in Exeter's cathedral precinct, only a few hundred paces from his own doorstep.
Aaron of Salisbury, a Jewish money-lender, has been found dead, his head enveloped in a brown leather money bag, a scrap of folded parchment clutched in his hand. On it is written: "And Jesus went into the temple and overthrew the tables of the money-changers."
This is just the beginning of a strange series of murders in which an apt biblical text is left at the scene of the crime. Setting out to track down a literate and Bible-learned killer in an age when only one percent of the population can read or write, Sir John deduces that he is looking for a homicidal priest.
But with at least twenty-five parish churches in Exeter, the killer could be any one of more that a hundred clerics….
作者简介：
'Bernard Knight brings medieval Exeter to life with gritty realism,smells and all,but with an underlying sympathy and humour'Historical Novels Review. |
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