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    Dragon's Lair

    By Sharon Penman

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    July, AD 1193: A king's ransom is missing...

    Richard the Lionheart, captured on his way home from the crusades, rots in an Austrian dungeon. Now England must raise a king's ransom. While his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, ransacks the land for gold to buy his freedom, Richard's younger brother, John, plots with King Philippe of France, England's bitterest foe, to ensure his brother dies in chains.

    When one of the ransom payments vanishes in the fastnesses of Wales, Eleanor sends her agent, Justin de Quincy, to recover it. Thrust into a maelstrom of intrigue if not outright rebellion, De Quincy's devotion will be supremely tested. For the queen's treasure is elusive, and danger is everywhere...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateSep 16, 2013
    ISBN9781781857069
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    Sharon Penman

    Sharon Penman is the author of several historical novels and medieval mysteries set during the Middle Ages. Her novels include Lionheart, about Richard I and the Crusades, A King’s Ransom, completing the story of Richard I, and The Sunne in Splendour about the end of England's War of the Roses. She lives in Mays Landing, New Jersey.

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    • 2/5
      Lots of exposition dumps via dialogue with Bennett. Bennett himself seemed to be an altogether unnecessary character, tbh. I've seen some other reviewers mention that the author's earlier mysteries were better, so I will have to try those.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this and the previous book in the series more than I did the first book, "The Queen's Man." Part of that might have been because I had just finished Penman's trilogy dealing with Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was loathe to leave that world. However, I also liked it even more than the second book, "Cruel as the Grave." On the other hand, if this isn't rated higher it's because it suffers in comparison to both other historical mysteries and Penman's straight historical fiction. I love her "Sunne in Splendor" and "Here Be Dragons" and this just isn't in the same category. Penman even confessed in an author's note that she wasn't at first very comfortable with pure fiction with created characters and I think it shows in particular in the first two books in this series. I felt as if she had just hit her stride in this book. I do like her protagonist detective, Justin de Quincy "the Queen's Man." And this is mostly set in Wales which seems to bring out something special in Penman. But I thought the solution to the first two books far too predictable--again something I thought improved in this book--and I did enjoy all three.
    • 2/5
      Justin de Quincy tries to find missing ransom money for Eleanor of Aquitaine. Sex! Murder! Suspense! The history is fine and the characters aren’t unduly anachronistic, but it’s all just boring. I’d hoped that by jumping in halfway through a series I could amuse myself by trying to figure out what happened in the earlier books, but Penman is so obvious and clichéd about her plot twists that there wasn’t even much mystery to be had. Bah!
    • 3/5
       Third in the series, so I can't decide if I'd missed something by not having read book 2. However, it was still pretty good. Justin de Quincy is a likeable lad who workd for the Queen, doing all sorts of odd jobs that require a bit of brains. This time he's in Wales, trying to retrieve some of the ransom collected for Richard, which has accidentally gone missing. The prime suspect is a Welsh rebel, but the obvious answer isn;t always the right one. A good little read.
    • 3/5
      Dragon's Lair was well plotted, good characterizations, though a bit slow in pacing.
    • 5/5
      Justin must find the stolen treasure that has be stolen. The treasur is a part of the money being raised by Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine to ransom her son Richard the Lionhearted out of prison. the twists and turns keep you wondering right up to end.