Barbara Cleverly

Bright Hair About the Bone (Leatitia Talbot Mysteries, No. 2) Barbara Cleverly

In Burgundy, France, in 1926, a famed archaeologist dies a terrible death in a country not his own.?Thus begins CWA Historical Dagger Award winner Barbara Cleverly?s dazzling new mystery novel. And soon aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot will find herself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy centuries in the making.

Letty?s joy at snaring a place in the excavation of an ancient church in Burgundy is dimmed by the tragedy of her godfather Daniel?s violent death. But when Letty receives a posthumous encoded message, she begins to believe that Daniel?s death was not a random act. Her investigation into Daniel?s murder sends her on a journey into a country?s remote history?into the orbit of a privileged French family harboring its own damning secret?into ancient Celtic mysteries and one sacred truth kept through the ages. It is an explosive revelation that could rock modern Christianity?and force a killer out of the shadows as a country devastated by one war lays the groundwork for another.?