The Lammas Feast (2002)

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I remember enjoying an earlier book in the series quite a bit. This one was adequate but had a couple of annoying traits. The story is told by a fifteenth-century chapman named Roger and centers on a series of murders in Bristol. The author makes a very good effort to get historical details right (though perhaps a little heavy-handed in the "stinky streets" school of portraying medieval cities), but Roger as narrator occasionally goes far beyond what a simple chapman (even one educated in a monastery) would know or bother to tell about medieval history. In particular, an aside about the origins of courtly love in the courts of Aquitaine rang untrue. Likewise, many of his turns of phrase seem to suggest a modern outlook rather than a medieval one, such as referring to Piers Gaveston as the "lover" of the late king.

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