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Falconer’s Crusade
by Ian Morson
Book 1 in the William Falconer Medieval Mysteries series.
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Oxford, winter 1264. As Henry III’s conflict with the barons moves towards civil war, new student Thomas Symon is mistaken for the killer of a young woman. Regent Master William Falconer rescues him from a mob and treats the accusation as a problem to be tested rather than accepted.
When three students are also murdered, Falconer searches the university’s rival halls, religious factions and political networks for the connection between the deaths. The investigation introduces an Oxford divided by town–gown hostility, antisemitism and baronial politics, while establishing Falconer’s habit of using observation and experiment against rumour.
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