The Nun’s Tale

Name: The Nun’s Tale
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by Candace Robb

Book 3 in the An Owen Archer Mystery series.

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In 1366, Joanna Calverley, a young nun believed to have died of fever and been buried at Beverley, suddenly reappears and claims that she staged her death. When murder follows her return, Archbishop Thoresby asks Owen Archer to reconstruct the missing months that Joanna refuses or is unable to explain.

While Lucie Wilton questions the traumatised nun, Owen travels through Yorkshire to investigate the Percy household and confer with Geoffrey Chaucer, then engaged on royal business. Deserters bound for France, the trade in relics and concealed family relationships gradually connect Joanna's disappearance to the new killing and reveal why several people need her story to remain buried.