KATE CLIFFORD
Book ID/图书代码： 06840015B84718
English Summary/英文概要： York, late winter 1399. Young widow Katherine Clifford provides the worthies of York with private accommodations for assignations with their mistresses. Secrecy is essential, so it is a potential disaster when someone is murdered in the best chamber, a guest she had not approved, invited by her uncle, the powerful William Frost. William swiftly disposes of the body and assures Katherine that no one need know of the man’s death. But it worries her when he refuses to reveal the identity of the corpse, insisting she is safer not knowing. Katherine’s no one’s fool; she knows that someone is going to come searching for the missing man. And when the dead man’s female companion is found dead, floating in the King’s Fishpond, her tongue cut out, Katherine decides it is very much in her interest to learn the nature of the fatal meeting and the identity of the dead man. Her investigation gains urgency when a journeyman stonemason is found hanging in the minster chapter house and William seeds a rumor that the man hanged himself in despair for murdering the drowned woman.
In the midst of this crisis, Katherine’s mother, Eleanor, returns to York.
Eleanor had remarried after the death of Katherine’s father and moved with her husband Ulrich Smit to Strasbourg. Eleanor has brought with her from Strasbourg three Beguines, or poor sisters, intending to found a house of Beguines in York, preferably in the very house on High Petergate which Katherine uses for her private bawdhouse. Katherine and her mother are in a standoff, but the poor sisters convince Eleanor that her daughter’s struggle to find Cecelia Hatten’s murderer is in the spirit of their mission.
Katherine’s investigation leads her into mounting danger as she discovers the extent of both her uncle’s and her mother’s involvement in the building rebellion. But she is determined to clear Cecelia’s and Connor’s names, and to learn the extent of the danger to her and her stepchildren so that she can plan how to protect them all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1399年冬末的约克。年轻寡妇凯瑟琳•克利福德为约克的名流提供与情妇幽会的秘密住宿场所。她的叔叔威廉未经她的允许带来的一位客人在最高级的客房被谋杀了，也因此给她带来了危险。威廉迅速处理了尸体并向凯瑟琳保证没有其他人知道此事。但他拒绝告诉凯瑟琳死者的身份，令她感到非常不安，聪明的她知道一定会有人追查此事。之后，死者女伴的死尸在国王的鱼池被发现，她的舌头已被人割掉。凯瑟琳因而感觉必须查出这次致命会面的真相和死者的身份。此时，威廉散布谣言称在教堂牧师会礼堂上吊自杀的临时工石匠因为谋杀了那个女伴而畏罪自杀。而凯瑟琳已经改嫁的母亲艾莉诺也在此时回到了约克，还带来了三个天主教徒，企图利用凯瑟琳的房屋在约克建立一个天主教堂。凯瑟琳也因此和她的母亲陷入僵局。而与此同时，随着凯瑟琳调查的深入，她发现自己的叔叔和母亲都与此案有千丝万缕的联系。但她还是下决心洗清塞西莉亚和康纳的嫌疑，弄清自己和继子女们所面临的危险，并制定计划保护他们所有人的安全。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“Candace Robb轻松再现了中世纪的约克。作品情节引人入胜，发人深省……”——《约克郡晚报》
“Enthralling and evocative...Candace Robb recreates medieval York with ease.” --Yorkshire Evening Press
About the Author/作者介绍： Candace Robb在研究生阶段主攻中世纪文学及历史，并在后来担任科学期刊编辑及自由作家期间继续从事这一时期的研究。已经出版了故事背景设定在14世纪英格兰、威尔士、苏格兰的13部犯罪小说。她是《Owen Archer》系列作品的作者，该系列的故事发生在约克，已经出版了10多本小说。她写作的《Margaret Kerr》三部曲研究了苏格兰早期抵抗英格兰国王爱德华一世的故事。她以Emma Campion的名义出版了历史小说《The King’s Mistress》和《A Triple Knot》。现与丈夫居住在西雅图。
Candace Robb did her graduate work in medieval literature and history, and has continued to study the period while working first as an editor of scientific publications and now for some years as a freelance writer. Candace has published 13 crime novels set in 14th century England, Wales, and Scotland. She is the author of The Owen Archer series, which is based in York and currently extends over 10 novels; The Margaret Kerr trilogy, which explores the early days of Scotland’s struggle again England’s King Edward I. Writing as Emma Campion, Candace has published the historical novels The King’s Mistress (Broadway Books, 2011) and A Triple Knot (Broadway Books, 2014). Candace lives in Seattle with her husband.
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