A Gift of Sanctuary (An Owen Archer Mystery)

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A Gift of Sanctuary (An Owen Archer Mystery)

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Format: Mass Market Paperback, 1st ed., 320pp. ISBN: 0312974779 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: March 1999 The year is 1370. England faces uncertainty from within and without: France threatens to invade, while unrest is brewing in Wales. Using a pilgrimage to St. David's as a cover, one-eyed spy Owen Archer and Geoffrey Chaucer journey into Owen's native Wales for a covert mission. Their orders are to recruit archers for the Duke of Lancaster's counterattack on France and inspect the Duke's Welsh fortifications against a French invasion. The two men must also discover whether the Duke's steward is involved in a French plot to incite rebellion in Wales. But trouble precedes the party to St. David's. On Whitesands Beach outside the cathedral city, a young man is beaten and left for dead, but is rescued and hidden away by the poet Dafydd ap Gwylim. Then, at the gateway to the city, a body is found stabbed to death, his shoes filled with white sand. The mystery thickens as the dead man is revealed to be Owen and Chaucer's contact - and, in an alarming twist, the son of the very steward they are investigating. Owen wants to resolve his business and return to his apothecary wife, Lucie, and their children. But another murder and the disappearance of the steward's beautiful young wife force Owen to take action - and question his own loyalties.