![]() ![]() Clark introduces the characters and their backgrounds with smooth grace, 'catching up' the reader without ever giving you that 'info-dump' feeling. However, I was in the mood for a medieval mystery. ![]() ![]() This was my first book by Cassandra Clark, and I had a bit of trepidation seeing that it was fifth in a series. I wonder if she and Hubert will ever be together? Who knows? It's a question readers often ask me but we'll have to wait and see. She's about 32 now, with two children living in different households as was the custom then, so by the time poor Richard is murdered, she's going to be quite old. I would love to write a book shadowing every year of Richard II's reign with a different, multi-layered mystery for Hildegard to solve. I'm doubtful about putting too much violence in the stories as there is already so much in the world and I don't like the idea of adding to it, even if only in the imagination, but then, it's part of that world too so it cannot be avoided. It surprises me that I'm writing historical novels at all, especially ones involving crime, as before this I wrote contemporary plays and romance. When I started with Hangman Blind I thought Hildegard would become an abbess but then she joined the Cistercians who only allowed women to be prioresses so she's had to put up with that. I'm mad about the middle ages and love writing this series of medieval whodunits featuring nun sleuth Hildegard of Meaux. ![]()
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