Trapped amongst the pilgrims (who were, quite possibly, the model for Chaucer's famous story cycle), looking for a murderer, a hidden heretic and a solution to the riddle that will allow him to go back home, Crispin Guest finds his considerable wit and intellect taxed to its very limit. When he arrives at Canterbury, Guest is accosted by an old acquaintance from court - one Geoffrey Chaucer - and is surrounded by a group in town on a pilgrimage. The archbishop has received letters threatening the safety of the artifacts, and he wants Guest to protect them and uncover whoever is after them. The Archbishop of Canterbury has specifically requested Guest to investigate a threat against the bones of saint and martyr Thomas a Beckett, which are on display in the cathedral in Canterbury. ""Westerson has mastered her subject and has used that knowledge to create erudite entertainment."" " -"Richmond Times Dispatch" on" Veil of Lies Disgraced knight Crispin Guest gets himself into some serious trouble in London and as a result is forced to accept an assignment far out of town.
Now Guest has come to the unwanted attention of the Lord Sheriff of London and most recent client was murdered while he was working for him.Īnd everything seems to turn on a religious relic - a veil reported to have wiped the brow of Christ - that is now missing. Not wishing to sully himself in such disgraceful, dishonorable business but in dire need of money, Guest agrees and discovers that the wife is indeed up to something, presumably nothing good.īut when he comes to inform his client, he is found dead - murdered in a sealed room, locked from the inside. In 1383, Guest is called to the compound of a merchant - a reclusive mercer who suspects that his wife is being unfaithful and wants Guest to look into the matter. With no trade to support him and no family willing to acknowledge him, Crispin has turned to the one thing he still has - his wits - to scrape a living together on the mean streets of London. Having lost his bethrothed, his friends, his patrons and his position in society. Crispin Guest is a knight to remember." - Cornelia Read, author of A Field of Darkness, on Veil of Lies.Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight, stripped of his rank and his honor - but left with his life - for plotting against Richard II. Westerson's finely wrought portrait of gritty Medieval London is embued with great wit and poignancy.
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