The Nightingale Gallery - Being the First of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan (Hardcover, Us ed.)

Introducing young Brother Athelstan, a dedicated Dominican monk with two callings. In one of medieval London's poorest parishes, he ministers to prostitutes, thieves, and other castoffs. But it's as clerk to Falstaffian London coroner Sir John Cranston, examining the bodies of the freshly murdered, that he has come to understand how dark and villainous the human heart can be.