The falconer's knot : a story of friars, flirtation and foul play / by Mary Hoffman.

Author/creator Hoffman, Mary, 1945-
Format Book
Edition1st U.S. ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2007.
Description297 pages : map ; 21 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
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Variant title Subtitle on dust jacket: Story of friars, flirtation and foul play
Contents Courtly love -- Red-handed -- Sanctuary -- Saint Martin's cloak -- Stab in the dark -- Suspicion -- Illumination -- Widows -- As beautiful as possible -- Mundualdus -- From beyond the sea -- Poison in the air -- Onlooker -- Minister general -- Colour of blood -- Digging up the past -- Death's head -- Mordant -- Burial -- Dead white -- Merlin for a lady.
Abstract Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
Genre/formMystery fiction.
LCCN 2006016365
ISBN9781599900568 (hc.)
ISBN1599900564 (hc.)