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Matthew Bartholomew doesn't want to travel to Peterborough in the summer of 1358, but his camaraderie with the lovely Julitta Holm has brought on a scandal in Cambridge, so he has no choice. He is one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, incurred to discover what took place to Peterborough's abbot, who proceeded to go for a trip 1 day and is not seen since. Once the Commissioners occur, they find the city in turmoil. A feisty rabble-rouser is pushing the poor to rise up against their overlords, the abbey reaches war with a robust goldsmith and his army of mercenaries, and there are bitter rivalries between contending shrines. One shrine is focused on Lawrence de Oxforde, a vicious felon who was simply performed for his crimes, but who may have been venerated after miracles started occurring at his grave. However, it isn't long before murder rears its brain, and its own first victim is Joan, the woman in charge of Oxforde's tomb...
