What do You think about The Tainted Relic: An Historical Mystery (2005)?
I bought copy of her first two books of the series last month. it is on my list.I just need to get through this election and I can get to it. Although my transit ride to Scarborough Southwest has given me some time. :)
—Nicole Yovanoff
I listened to this at work and that might have been part of my not digging it as much as I could have. It took me a little while to get into the story and then to understand everything that was going on. I got that the relic was supposedly cursed and death followed in its wake. My issue was not following who was dying and it seemed like there were a lot of victims with each story. They died before I had a chance to know them or the people solving the crimes or the people doing the killing or even why the killing was occurring, except part of it was to get the relic back from whoever had it. The only time I could truly understand the story was when it moved up to William Shakespeare's time. The story made me laugh and care about the characters. All that said, I will be getting more of this series of books, especially KING ARTHUR'S BONES, the reason I started looking for this team of authors. I have a collection of Arthurian legend, saw this book in a review, put it on the WWBL and then found out there's a series of books by this team who call themselves Medieval Murderers. Very cool premise and still intriguing. I know not all books are for all people and I will likely get this as a handheld book to read and pay closer attention....and read it someplace without distractions..like work can be....silly work....Three need fewer distractions beans....
—Vickie
Five well known writers use their well-known medieval crime fighting characters to solve mystery and murder in 5 separate, but interlinked stories is an interesting concept. On one level it works, but it can also be a bit confusing as the 'Acts' are about 100 pages long and the number of peripheral characters can be quite confusing. Even more so if you are not fully acquainted with the heroes of each piece, as I was not. Of course this was not made any easier by the rather disjointed way that I read the first two Acts, but it was well worth sticking with it. I will be reading more by the Medieval Murderers.
—Vicki
