A Play of Heresy (Joliffe the Player, Book 7) by Margaret Frazer PDF

Historical Fiction

By Margaret Frazer

ISBN-10: 0425243478

ISBN-13: 9780425243473

From the pages of the nationwide bestselling Dame Frevisse mysteries...

A competition OF MURDER...

In the early summer season of 1438, Joliffe and his fellow avid gamers have arrived in Coventry for the theatrical competition of Corpus Christi Day. hired via one of many city's wealthy and robust service provider guilds, they plan to offer of the various performs in an effort to extravagantly depict all of God's tale in a parade of pomp and pageantry.

But while they arrange to accomplish the Nativity, Joliffe can be referred to as directly to play a sensible guy off the level besides. whilst the service provider grasp Kydwa is going lacking and is presumed lifeless, the crafty Bishop Beaufort calls on Joliffe's talents as a undercover agent to discover the mysteries of Coventry's elite. As suspicion falls on his personal partners, Joliffe is drawn into the devilish machinations of a mystery sect of heretics bent on destroying the Church. The gamers could be pressured to give the harrowing of Hell, yet will Joliffe have the capacity to resolve a confession of corruption sooner than Coventry's darkish enigmas unharness a medieval bloodbath of the innocents?

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