The Wolves of Savernake Domesday Series Book 1 edition by Edward Marston Literature Fiction eBooks
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The murder of a wealthy miller beckons two of King William the Conqueror's cleverest men to the town of Bedwyn to uncover dark secrets and find a two-legged killer more savage than any beast.
The Wolves of Savernake Domesday Series Book 1 edition by Edward Marston Literature Fiction eBooks
First Sentence: Savernake Forest trembled in the fading light.Set 20 years after William the Conqueror becomes king, royal tribunals are sent throughout England to compile a comprehensive assessment of his land and resources and the extent of taxes he could raise.
Although one tribunal has already visited Bedwyn, a letter received from the town's miller has prompted the sending of a second tribunal consisting of knight, Ralph Delchard, lawyer Gervase Bret, Canon Hubert and Brother Simon.
Before they arrive, the miller has been brutally killed, apparently by a wolf. Ralph suspect the cause of death was more human than animal.
This is another of those authors I can't believe I've not previously read. His writing is so visual and his descriptions so lush, I was drawn in from the very beginning. I love that he almost anthropomorphized nature: "...a weeping willow dived angrily downwards..." The scene when the members of the tribunal ride to the top of a hill and look down on Stonehenge is wonderfully done. I am not one for "casting" a book, but I found myself so doing with Delchard and Gervase.
The sense of time and place are so strong but not glamorized. Marston realistically portrays how little power most women had over their own lives and how superstition was rife. The dialogue is effective in conveying a sense of the period without making it difficult to read. There was wonderful humor to offset the brutality of the deaths.
The story is very well plotted. I certainly did not identify the killer until they were exposed. I'm now off to find all the rest of Marston's books.
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The Wolves of Savernake Domesday Series Book 1 edition by Edward Marston Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This review is for the entire series. This author writes so well, I sometimes re-read lines just for the language. The mystery, characters, and setting are also well developed, too. The dynamic between the two main is characters is great. It is a hard book to put down.
I liked this book because it was from an earlier English time, and it had a mixture of characters; soldier, clerk, and two monks. The ending was really exciting; it seemed like several people were the murderers, but the true killer was a big surprise
This was the first Edward Marston book I've read. I wanted to like it, but I was constantly put off by Marston's writing style and his poor ear for the sound of English prose. This may seem like a cheeky criticism, coming from an American, when the author is Welsh and went to Oxford. But I would suggest to Mr. Marston that he might benefit from reading Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Language of the Night Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction." I'd also recommend picking some passages from Tolkien and analyzing them for tone, rhythm, cadence, and vocabulary. Tolkien frequently and naturally falls into the native iambic and trochaic rhythms of good Anglo-Saxon English. Marston has little feel for rhythm and does not write for readability. He uses words such as "lugubrious," "excrescences," "remonstrated," "imprecations," and "indissolubly." Such ugly, abstract words with such ugly rhythms simply cannot fit into good English prose, especially when the author wishes to evoke a dark, medieval atmosphere. In short, Marston may have stories in him, but he has little feel for the music of English (or he is cranking out novels too fast), so his writing very much gets in the way.
Second book of the series. Ralph and Gervase, Norman and Saxon, cohorts, friends and agents of William collecting and finding land fraud for the Domesday Book. Strange Beasts in the forest, haunting the village, Fear stalks the land with awful results. Excellent writing and plot. Ed Marston has done his research and paints a vivid picture of village life in the 12th Century. Very hard to put down for even a minute.
The book took me in directions that I did not anticipate. An unlikely theme, well done.
As a lover of historical mysteries, this series is perfect for me. This is the first of the series of the adventures of Ralph Delchard, a Norman soldier in the army of William the Conquerer, and Gervase Bret, a half-French, half-Saxon chancery clerk, who serve as the King's Commisioners, compiling the Domesday Book. Whenever they ride into a town, they find a key witness already murdered. To complete their task ordered by the King, they must first solve the murder.
I began this series way back in the 1990`s. Liked it then and rediscovered it recently. Very well plotted storylines and well written ( despite errors transcribing from the book ). This time period had always held my interest.
Have already downloaded the rest of the series! I highly recommend this series if you like the historical mysteries.
First Sentence Savernake Forest trembled in the fading light.
Set 20 years after William the Conqueror becomes king, royal tribunals are sent throughout England to compile a comprehensive assessment of his land and resources and the extent of taxes he could raise.
Although one tribunal has already visited Bedwyn, a letter received from the town's miller has prompted the sending of a second tribunal consisting of knight, Ralph Delchard, lawyer Gervase Bret, Canon Hubert and Brother Simon.
Before they arrive, the miller has been brutally killed, apparently by a wolf. Ralph suspect the cause of death was more human than animal.
This is another of those authors I can't believe I've not previously read. His writing is so visual and his descriptions so lush, I was drawn in from the very beginning. I love that he almost anthropomorphized nature "...a weeping willow dived angrily downwards..." The scene when the members of the tribunal ride to the top of a hill and look down on Stonehenge is wonderfully done. I am not one for "casting" a book, but I found myself so doing with Delchard and Gervase.
The sense of time and place are so strong but not glamorized. Marston realistically portrays how little power most women had over their own lives and how superstition was rife. The dialogue is effective in conveying a sense of the period without making it difficult to read. There was wonderful humor to offset the brutality of the deaths.
The story is very well plotted. I certainly did not identify the killer until they were exposed. I'm now off to find all the rest of Marston's books.
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