The Cherubs Smile by Pamela Gordon Hoad
- Title: The Cherubs Smile by Pamela Gordon Hoad
- Author: Pamela Gordon Hoad
- Publisher: Pamela Gordon
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Crime and mystery fiction
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 128 x 198 x 28
Product Description
'In 1444 following his return from exile and the events in The Devil's Stain and The Angel's Wing the young physician Harry Somers becomes embroiled in affairs of state during negotiations for a truce between England and France during what became known later as The Hundred Years War. He is called on to investigate a murder and his discoveries lead him to suspect a plot to undermine the peace talks. Soon he finds he must juggle his own allegiances to noblemen who have become bitter rivals and he is asked to supply information to both of them as well as to the influential head of a religious house. He is given a second commission to find a missing child which involves him in another set of personal challenges and choices and his burgeoning love for a woman at court complicates his life until he is propelled into a maelstrom of horrors. In the crisis which follows Harry acquires self-knowledge with which he is deeply uncomfortable and calls in question where his future will lie.'