Veil of Lies by Jeri WestersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Every once in a while you pick up a book on a whim. This was the case with Jeri Westerson 's Veil of Lies, the first book in the Crispin Guest Medieval Noir series.
What a plaesant surprise! The author knows her craft and subject. It is not easy to evoke the feeling of medieval England but Westerson does.
This nystery takes place in the late 1300's and involves our hero, former disgraced knight, Crispin Guest. Since his fall from grace, he has become known as The Tracker and solves mysteries and finds things for people. Owning much of his experience to his former life as a noble and a knight, Guest is a breath of fresh air. He's not perfect but has a nobility that shines through.
In Veil of Lies, Guest is commisioned by a wealthy merchant to keep an eye on his young wife, he believes her to be having an affair. Reluctantly, Guest agrees. After discovering the truth, Guest reports back to the merchants manor only to find him stabbbed to death in a room that had been locked from the inside.
Throw into the mix a nasty Sherrif, an Italian syndicate bent on destroying the English economy, Crispin's loyal houseboy Jack and a mysterious relic that may or may not bear the image of Christ and you have one hack of a story. Twists and turns abound and you coulkd swear at times that you can smell the Thames nearby or the squalor of the Shamnbles.
Well worth reading.
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