Rough music : a Cragg and Fidelis mystery /
Blake, Robin, 1948-
Rough music : a Cragg and Fidelis mystery / Robin Blake. - 312 pages : map ; 23 cm - TheCragg & Fidelis mysteries A Cragg & Fidelis mystery .
Titus Cragg and his friend Luke Fidelis investigate macabre goings-on in a remote Lancashire village in this intriguing 18th century mystery. It's the sweltering summer of 1744 and when an epidemic disease threatens the town, coroner Titus Cragg retires with his wife and baby son to a remote village in East Lancashire, where he hopes his family will enjoy the healthy and tranquil air. But Cragg finds the rural atmosphere anything but peaceful when he's called upon to investigate the horrific death of a local woman who has fallen victim to a cruel community punishment. Assisted by his friend Dr Luke Fidelis, Cragg begins to probe the village's prejudices and simmering hatreds, as he untangles cross-currents of suspicion, rivalry and rural customs which are very different from the ways he knows in the town. Then another local woman disappears, and events take a disturbing new twist ...
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Cragg, Titus (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Fidelis, Luke (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Medical examiners (Law)--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Preston (Lancashire, England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George II, 1727-1760--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Rough music : a Cragg and Fidelis mystery / Robin Blake. - 312 pages : map ; 23 cm - TheCragg & Fidelis mysteries A Cragg & Fidelis mystery .
Titus Cragg and his friend Luke Fidelis investigate macabre goings-on in a remote Lancashire village in this intriguing 18th century mystery. It's the sweltering summer of 1744 and when an epidemic disease threatens the town, coroner Titus Cragg retires with his wife and baby son to a remote village in East Lancashire, where he hopes his family will enjoy the healthy and tranquil air. But Cragg finds the rural atmosphere anything but peaceful when he's called upon to investigate the horrific death of a local woman who has fallen victim to a cruel community punishment. Assisted by his friend Dr Luke Fidelis, Cragg begins to probe the village's prejudices and simmering hatreds, as he untangles cross-currents of suspicion, rivalry and rural customs which are very different from the ways he knows in the town. Then another local woman disappears, and events take a disturbing new twist ...
9780727888518 072788851X
GBB8H9552 bnb
019070755 Uk
Cragg, Titus (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Fidelis, Luke (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Medical examiners (Law)--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Preston (Lancashire, England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George II, 1727-1760--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.