BLOODSTONE

This portrait of England in the late Middle Ages is expertly depicted by narrator Terry Wale. Author Doherty's historical crime novels both instruct on daily life in centuries past and entertain with intricate, baffling plots. Wale portrays a warmhearted but resolute Brother Athelstan, the little friar who uses logic and intuition to solve vicious murders and unravel the mystery of how a precious religious relic was spirited out of a locked room. Transporting listeners back to the fourteenth century, a time of political instability, hereditary power, religious superstition, and violence, Wale narrates the story with authority and compassion and conveys the friar's zeal for justice. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2014]