Already in the fast lane of legal thrillers, Ellis’ work is approaching the coveted “diamond” lane where every novel is a bestseller and every plot a winner.

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But you’ve never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn’t happen, not even in a story-teller’s tale. He's introduced early into the company and becomes the most aggressive antagonist among them; it's Zophiel's personal demons who first emerge as a potential external threat for the entire company as well.

Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. The plague has come to England and nine people have joined together in an attempt to outrun it and find safety.

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Een groep van negen reizigers probeert wanhopig de pest voor te blijven en trekt steeds verder Engeland in. This tale is set in the year AD 1348, and the Great Plague is ravaging throughout the land, and making people flee towards hopefully healthier and safer places to live. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 13 pages. Maitland began writing historical novels after she became fascinated by the medieval period having visited the beguinage (city of women) in Bruges, which she then used in her novel The Owl Killers. The 1st book in the series is 'The Drowned City', and 2nd 'Traitor in the Ice' are also published by Headline.

There are healers, sorcerers, storytellers, musicians, ex-priests and I did begin to wonder if I was playing Dungeons and Dragons. But again - if you think about it as a Middle-ages inspired fantasy book, or, as I said "RPG+Mafia" kind of book, it's great and open-minded modern characters don't seem out of place. It's a relatively slow-paced story, I suppose: the actual threat doesn't come into the open until almost the end. Aún así, ha sido un viaje prodigioso de lectura, huyendo de la peste, del lobo del obispo, y del frío glacial de la Inglaterra desolada. In fact, at that point, I would have settled for a fantastical if implausible ending but I didn’t even get that.

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It felt as if the author took us readers for a ride, promising a lot of things but not delivering it. How we get from the future to the past is the key to this deftly constructed and sharply written suspense novel by the author of the Edgar-winning Line of Vision. My relief lasted until the final page and then BAM, I suddenly knew exactly what those reviewers were talking about. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.The brilliance of Ellis’s work here is in the way he peels away the layers of story line again and again to reveal unexpected twists and turns without tipping his hand. That was quite a relief, considering I adored the book most of the way through, and it had already gone down a bit in my estimation by the final chapter. I remember the reveal, just don’t remember enough of the text to make a connection…I liked the creepy though and the period detail, but interesting to hear about possible incongruity.