![]() Beaufort scores with this satisfying mystery nestled securely in a well-detailed historical context. She neatly captures the particulars of everyday life, from the clothes the Crusaders wore to the food they ate. Beaufort's novel depicts the twisted alleys and markets of Jerusalem-and the equally twisted motives that brought the Crusaders there-with clarity and force. From 2007 to 2009 the award was jointly presented with the publication Mystery News. The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication for crime fiction readers. ![]() Charged by both Tancred and the Advocate (the Catholic religious leader in Jerusalem) to solve the murders and discover their meaning, Geoffrey ferrets out treason and treachery, finding himself in constant danger. Peter May with the 2013 Barry Award for Novel, for his book, 'The Blackhouse'. ![]() The murder isn't unique: three monks and two knights have been similarly dispatched with carved daggers in locations throughout the city. ![]() Sir Geoffrey de Mappstone, a knight allied to the Norman leader Tancred, returning to the city from a desert patrol, discovers the corpse of a recently murdered knight in a baker's bedchamber. Victorious Crusaders battle heat, grit, Saracens, Greeks, Jews and one another to retain sway over the captured city. In this first volume of a projected series, the setting is 12th-century Jerusalem, as conflicted then as it is now. ![]()
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