575 AD: A baby is washed up on the Irish coast and is taken to the nearest abbey. He grows up to become a scholar and a monk, but, in early adulthood, he appears to have become possessed, scribbling endless strange verses in Latin. When the Abbott tries to have him drowned, he disappears. Later, his scribblings turn up as the Book of Bran, his writings translated as portents of the future. Violence and untimely death befall all who come into the orbit of this mysterious book.
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In the Medieval Murderers' absorbing fourth serial historical (after 2007's House of Shadows), six British mystery authors—Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, C.J. Sansom—chart the impact of the Black Book of Brân over the centuries. In 574, the infant Brân washes ashore in Ireland with the eponymous book of prophesies, leading local churchmen to believe him to be demonic. More than 600 years later, the sinister tome causes havoc in Exeter when coroner John de Wolfe and cleric Thomas de Peyne must cope with priests who have caught gold fever during a killing spree. Brân's manuscript makes an implausible side trip to snowy 1262 Russia, but it's soon back in England amid mayhem in Westminster Abbey. The prophetic book, which has a habit of bringing out the worst in people, winds up in an appropriately apocalyptic future of polar ice melt, nuclear war, earthquakes and floods. (Feb.)
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"Monks, mists, madness, taverns: the evocation of a strange but familiar Other Britain shrouded in time . . . A must for historical crime buffs." —Tangled Web
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The Power of Words,
This review is from: The Lost Prophecies (Medieval Murderers) (Paperback)
Six writers of historical mysteries and thrillers come together in The Lost Prophecies to imagine the far-reaching consequences of a book foretelling future events. This book is fabulous: to quote one of its characters, "A combination of history, religion, and mysticism was like manna from heaven" to me.The events prophesied in The Lost Prophecies originate in a small black book, laid out in enigmatic and beautifully lettered Latin: they are the ravings of a possessed orphan in sixth century Ireland. Easily twisted around true events, the prophecies of the little black book seem to hold truth within their twists and turns. Six mysteries of intrigue and treason, rebellion and murder result over two millenia and we the reader are brought to realize truly the power of the written word. The Lost Prophecies captivates as it moves through the past and forward in our our current century to a future of small but determined hope for mankind. This book has its roster of heroes, good decent people who look for answers beyond (ironically) the written word and the popular lines and doctrines, people who find truth in their hearts, sustenance in their goodness, and knowledge through their very human failings. Maybe such heroes are mythical but I don't think so. We see something familiar in them, something to hope for and aspire to. And that is the true power of words. For more reviews, go to www.readallday.org.
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By Just A Girl "More Like a Horrible Warning" (Lost in the boonies) - See all my reviews
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I like these Medieval Murders collections of short mysteries on a theme. They are just long enough to read one story before bedtime but keep the same theme. It's a great premise.In this case, the premise is about a lost book of prophecies written by a "mad" man and hidden before he disappears. This particular set of stories didn't quite seem to mesh as well as some others in this series (The Tainted Relic, for example). However, for some quick, light reading it is very enjoyable.
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Since I have retired, I am looking forward to reading more. This was one I needed after I read the first one in the series.
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