Way Between the Worlds (An Aelf Fen Mystery, 4) - Hardcover

Clare, Alys

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727880977 ISBN 13: 9780727880970

Publisher: Severn House, 2012

Synopsis

'A must for historical mystery afficionados' - Booklist Starred Review
Come to me! I need you! These are the words that bring apprentice healer Lassair awake one morning in the spring of 1092, shaking and trembling, covered in sweat despite the chill night. It is not the first time she has had such a dream, and Lassair – who is growing more aware of the strange power within her – knows that something in the spirit world is trying to reach her. Something increasingly insistent and threatening.
Soon, Lassair is certain that one of her loved ones is in terrible danger – but who? Travelling from Cambridge, where she is studying under the tutelage of an extraordinary man, she returns to her backwater Fenland village – to hear the dreadful news that a nun at Chatteris Abbey has been murdered. The same nunnery where her beloved sister, Elfritha, lives. Could the urgent summons have come from her? Lassair immediately sets off, full of fear, but the danger she will have to face may be greater than she is ready for . . .

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About the Author

Alys Clare divides her time between Tonbridge, England-in the area where ""Tavern in the Morning"" is set--and her ancient stone cottage in Brittany. The author of two previous Hawkenlye mysteries, ""Fortune Like the Moon"" and ""Ashes of the Elements,"" she has also studied archaeology at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* Clare’s Aelf Fen series, set in eleventh-century England, gets better and better. In the latest installment, neophyte healer Lassair experiences disturbing dreams, in which someone she can’t identify is calling for her help. Terrified that a member of her family is in danger, Lassair leaves Cambridge and the home of her mentor, Gurdyman, for her home village. There, she learns that her beloved sister, Elfritha, a novice nun at nearby Chatteris Abbey, is critically ill, and another nun has been murdered. But even when Elfritha begins to mend, the disturbing dreams continue. While Lassair is still trying to discover what her dreams mean, the reader is transported to northern England, where Rollo, a Norman knight, has been given a dangerous and desperate mission by the king of England, a mission on which the future of the country depends. While carrying out the king’s task, Rollo comes perilously close to death, and he knows in his heart that only Lassair, the woman he loves, and who loves him in return, can extract him from his horrifying predicament. From the very first page, readers are taken on a thrilling, dangerous, suspenseful, otherworldly, pulse-quickening journey, and until the very last, it’s not clear whether the ending will be happy or disastrous. A must for historical mystery aficionados. --Emily Melton

About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0727880977
• ISBN 13: 9780727880970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240