The Dragon of Handale by Cassandra Clark

* BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. When even her childhood home, Castle Hutton, turns out not to be a safe haven from murder, Hildegard realizes she will have to summon all of her courage and wisdom to counter the dark forces that threaten her friends and family as well as her country. (Hildegard of Meaux Medieval Mystery) by Cassandra Clark (Hardcover). Who was the boy, how was he connected to the men hanging from the gibbet, and what do these gruesome deaths mean? Hildegard is determined to uncover the truth, no matter how terrible it may be. Kirkus Reviews Starred Review of The Dragon of Handale A satisfying addition to. Traveling alone, she discovers danger, encountering first a gibbet with five bloodied corpses and then the body of a youth, brutally butchered. This is no ordinary journey-it is a time of rival popes, a boy king, and a shaky peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler's murder-and Hildegard has embarked on a perilous mission to try to secure the future of her priory.

The Dragon of Handale is the fourth novel in Cassandra Clark's acclaimed mystery series set in the 14th century.In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from the Abbey of Meaux. What is so valuable that it needs such protection? Has it anything to do with the mystery of the young man's death? And why have assassins been pursuing the King's courier across the savage moor land only to murder him at a lonely wayside tavern? Hildegard risks all dangers to seek out the truth. There she discovers a secret tower, locked and barred, with armed men on guard. Is it possible that the young man was killed by a dragon, as Hildegard's been told? Of course, Hildegard does not believe in dragons, and despite being warned against it, she goes for a walk in the woods. His wounds appear to be the ravages of claws, but larger than any animal Hildegard knows of. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. His body bears deep gashes from neck to groin. The Dragon of Handale: A Mystery by Clark, Cassandra Readable copy. The Dragon of Handale (Abbess of Meaux 5) by Cassandra Clark (Goodreads Author) 3. While walking about the grounds, Hildegard discovers the corpse of a young man in the morgue. Used as a house of correction for sinning nuns, it lies in the north of the county in the middle of a vast wood and is run by the ambiguous Abbess Basilda and her close group of hard-faced acolytes.

Still unsure whether she will rejoin the Order, the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity.

Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, has returned to the priory after more than a year from her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The Dragon of Handale by Cassandra Clark