Land of the Silver Dragon by Alys Clare

Land of the Silver Dragon by Alys Clare

A murder seems a hundred times more shocking when you know the victim. It seems to make the danger personal . . . Apprentice healer Lassair isn't too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grizzly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman's home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her attitude changes when she learns that the dead woman is a distant relation. Obstreperous, elderly Utta will not be much missed, but the incident makes Lassair's family uneasy. For the intruder seemed to be searching for something. Something he did not find. What could it be? Lassair has no idea. Utta was not rich, and she had no precious heirlooms. But as the stranger grows increasingly desperate, and his search brings violence to her very home, Lassair must confront a terrifying thought: the killer will do anything to discover his prize, and he seems to think she knows where it is . . .

Clare, Alys: - Alys Clare is the pseudonym of a novelist with over 20 published works. Brought up in the countryside close to where the Hawkenlye Novels are set, she went to school in Tonbridge and later studied archaeology at the University of Kent. She lives for part of the year in Brittany. In England, Alys's study overlooks a stretch of parkland which includes a valley with a little spring. The waters of this spring are similar in colour and taste to Tunbridge Wells's famous Chalybeat Spring, and it was this that prompted Alys's setting of her fictional Hawkenlye Abbey in the very spot where her own house now stands.

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ISBN 13	9781847514820
ISBN 10	1847514820
Title	Land of the Silver Dragon
Author	Alys Clare
Series	An Aelf Fen Mystery
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2014-04-25
Number of pages	240
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