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The Chapel of Bones
First published 2004
Exeter, 1323. New deaths in the cathedral close revive the memory of Walter de Lecchelade, a churchman murdered there forty years earlier during a violent dispute. The chapel built in response to that crime has preserved evidence, grudges and institutional shame.
Baldwin and Simon investigate whether the current killings are revenge, concealment or a struggle over the meaning of the earlier murder. The novel connects cathedral politics, architecture and collective memory, showing how a building intended as penance can become a focus for renewed violence.
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