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- Title
- The Maiden Bell (Thomas the Falconer)
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- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0727862936
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- Series
- Book 5 of 7: The Thomas the Falconer Mysteries
A Thomas the Falconer Mystery Summer 1593; plague rages in London, and the people of southern England watch anxiously as the infection spreads. Meanwhile in rural Berkshire, there is great excitement in the isolated village of Lambourn, where a family of itinerant bell-founders has arrived to forge a new church bell. But the peace of a warm summer's night is brutally shattered when one of the churchwardens ? a kindly old man without any enemies ? is found dead in the woods. Unease stalks the Downlands; ancient superstitions surface along with old hostilities, and Thomas the Falconer is charged by his master to restore order. But despite attempts to cover up the churchwarden's death, he soon realizes he seeks a murderer. In this, his fifth mystery, Thomas faces opposition from a fire-breathing Puritan minister as well as from ruthless landowners, before he finally uncovers the truth; which leads back almost four decades, to the burning of Protestant martyrs under Queen Mary?
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When bird-hunting "bat-fowlers" discover the battered body of saintly churchwarden Will Stubbs one night in Lambourn Wood, versatile falconer Thomas Finbow investigates in Pilkington's diverting fifth Elizabethan historical (after The Mapmaker's Daughter). A surfeit of characters slows the plot, but tension builds as Thomas, aided by parish clerk Jonas Crouch, uncovers links between several other missing locals and covetous landowner William Elyot, who is intent on enlarging his riverfront manor by any means. St. Michael's Church in Lambourn is a "place of strife" under stern vicar Richard Starling, while bell-founder Simon Goodchild and his eccentric family try to cast a new "maiden bell" for the parish amid the rivalries of church and town officials. As background to the town's many miseries, plague is ravaging England just as military commander Sir John Norris is raising an army to invade France at the behest of aging Queen Elizabeth. Twists at the end add a touch of pathos if not surprise. (Dec.)
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When the body of Will Stubbs, a churchwarden with no known enemies, is discovered mutilated and tied to a tree deep in the forest, local villagers are shocked, prompting Sir Robert Vicary to order his trusty falconer, Thomas Finbow, to investigate. The villagers, obsessed with the new "maiden bell" being forged for their church, are oddly unwilling to share information that could determine how Stubbs died and why. Then the men who discovered Stubbs' body change their story, and Thomas wonders what they're hiding. As he probes deeper, he uncovers dark secrets, ancient superstitions, jealousy, greed, and pride, all seething just beneath the village's peaceful surface. Pilkington offers a stirring story, complex plot, larger-than-life characters, and authentic sixteenth-century ambience. English history fans who don't know the Thomas the Falconer series should get up to speed quickly. Emily Melton
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
When the body of Will Stubbs, a churchwarden with no known enemies, is discovered mutilated and tied to a tree deep in the forest, local villagers are shocked, prompting Sir Robert Vicary to order his trusty falconer, Thomas Finbow, to investigate. The villagers, obsessed with the new "maiden bell" being forged for their church, are oddly unwilling to share information that could determine how Stubbs died and why. Then the men who discovered Stubbs' body change their story, and Thomas wonders what they're hiding. As he probes deeper, he uncovers dark secrets, ancient superstitions, jealousy, greed, and pride, all seething just beneath the village's peaceful surface. Pilkington offers a stirring story, complex plot, larger-than-life characters, and authentic sixteenth-century ambience. English history fans who don't know the Thomas the Falconer series should get up to speed quickly. Emily Melton
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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