Belladonna at Belstone C. J. Sansom This is 'the hard problem'

This is 'the hard problem' which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike

It was to Lucien that Misia bequested her terrible knowledge of power and chance

Dreamlike and yet impossibly real

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead

Belladonna at Belstone C. J. Sansom This is 'the hard problem'When Moll, a young nun, dies mysteriously at St. Mary's Priory in Belstone, England, the suffragan bishop orders Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, to investigate. Together with Bailiff Simon Puttock, his assistant in seven other puzzles in Jecks's delightful medieval series (The Last Templar, The Crediton Killings, etc.), Baldwin travels to Belstone, which is in a disgraceful state; greed, drunkenness and sexual license have all