Series: Hawkenlye Mysteries
by Author Alys Clare
Book
Girl in a Red Tunic (2006)
First Sentence: He had to wait until it was dark and everyone was asleep.Abbess Helewise has been thinking about her life prior to joining the Abbey. She is surprised, yet concerned, when her son Loefgar, shows up with his wife, who looks pale and ill, and their 14-month son, who is unnaturally...
Book
Heart of Ice (2007)
First Sentence: In the port of Boulogne, the enemy lay hidden.A sick man travels to take the healing waters of Hawkenlye Abby but is murdered and thrown into the pond which turns to ice. When the monks discovered his body, it is also discovered he carried apothecary herbs. While Sir Josse d’Acqui...