# The Faithful Dead

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- Book: [The Faithful Dead](https://www.bookquiver.com/alys-clare/the-faithful-dead) ([The Faithful Dead.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alys-clare/the-faithful-dead.md))
- Authors: [Alys Clare](https://www.bookquiver.com/alys-clare), [Elizabeth Harris](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-harris)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4471-669-6
- Published: 2003-06-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

An elderly pilgrim dies in Hawkenlye Vale. Nothing suspicious about that: he was gravely ill when he arrived. Meanwhile Josse d'Acquin has a visit from Prince John. Accompanied by his seer, the Prince urgently seeks news of a stranger, Galbertius Sidonius. Hurrying to Hawkenlye Abbey to enlist the Abbess Helewise's help, Josse finds that she has a problem of her own: a decomposing body has been discovered. Naked, and killed by an expert hand. Josse's brother, Yves, arrives; a visitor at Acquin has been asking for the brothers' father, Geoffroi, who went to Outremer with King Louis and Queen Eleanor. Josse, Yves and the Abbess are hurled into a mystery whose roots stretch back much further than the Second Crusade. And, watching them with his strange dark eyes, is the enigmatic figure of the Prince's Magister...