The best medieval detective novel I've read in recent months (though I read a lot)! Too bad this is the only book of this writer so far translated into French. A story with finesse in surprises, observations, emotions. The time of Henry II is evoked very well with its politico-religious tensions, his knights returning from Crusade, with their dreams and nightmares [we feel that the novel was written after the Iraq adventure ordered by Bush] . We walk alongside our investigators in the streets of Cambridge 12th century, there is sailing on the Cam at the invitation of religious who are the Good Lord give without confession, to who knows what hell, although land. .. And when all seems lost, nothing is. When everything seems saved, nothing is. History does not pass twice its dishes. But they are given to us to enjoy in this novel that we should miss at any price.
