A Burnable Book - Historical Mystery Novel by Bruce Holsinger | Perfect for Book Clubs & Medieval Fiction Lovers" （注：根据SEO最佳实践，优化后的标题： 1. 包含核心关键词"book"和具体类型"historical mystery novel" 2. 添加作者名增加权威性 3. 明确使用场景"book clubs & medieval fiction lovers" 4. 保持简洁在60字符以内）

Shakespeare would have loved this one. In what form does a mans love or infatuation towards a beautiful woman take and how does it transform into an artifact as dangerous as any weapon of mass destruction ; words so powerful that their journey, passing through the many hands of a medieval London, becomes life or death.Ready for some time traveling some six hundred years ago with some luminary characters..I would love to give a short synopsis of this wonderful intricately woven medieval subterfuge with a cast of characters who to some will be old friends but I will honor my no spoiler modus operandi in documenting brief opinions on my reads. A nice comfortable reading chair, a little Port and Raine my feline bunk mate sprawled out on the hooked rug before the fire were the backdrop for total immersion into a thin slice of medieval England, beautifully wrought by an expert in the field. While navigating the warrens of old London, the inner sanctums of Royalty, an Oxford that had seen better days or the encampments of those that thirst for power, you are taken on an incredible bumpy and convoluted trip through a world that at once seems too raw in human foible and yet all too familiar but perhaps more veiled. The extremely dangerous mission of locating a book that the narrator, poet, esquire and self stylized chanteur or singer of information accepts from his very close friend, Geoffrey Chaucer will lead him, you, through a tangle of assassins, power mongers, maudlyns and jacks, bishops, princes, dukes, kings and knights.A bit of a let down today. The writer, bringing forth his own inimitable expertise of the time along with exhaustive research to the degree that you the reader become transported almost seamlessly to a fascinating moment in our history. I actually recommend reading ~ a note to the reader ~ in the back of the book to perhaps get a feel for the historical characters.Joan Rugg threw back her head, cackling incautiously. "Who'd have thought it?" The bawd smoothed her dress over her generous thighs, her chins aglow in the lamplight: a bullfrog's throat on a moonlit pond. "The very king of England, by the cross, and his life in the hands of five whores!"