"An impressive fiction debut. . . . Malloy mixes history and fantasy with flair and delivers a wonderfully satisfying puzzler."— "A fabulous thriller. . . . A modern psychological tale with strong implications of horror."—MBR "Mystery à la Gothic. . . . Historian Malloy does her research proud."— The second book in the Lizzie Manning trilogy. Following the path of a medieval pilgrimage, historian Lizzie Manning finds unexpected danger. Chaucer may have based his Wife of Bath on a real woman, whose descendant holds certain artifacts, but will the investigation lead to something more sinister? Are the bones of St. Thomas Becket, believed to have been destroyed nearly six hundred years ago, hidden in Canterbury Cathedral, and is someone willing to kill to protect the secret? is the author of four maritime history books, including , which won the 2006 John Lyman Book Award for best maritime biography. Her first historical mystery introduced historian Lizzie Manning. Malloy has a PhD from Brown Universityand teaches maritime history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Museum Studies at Harvard University.