The story made me laugh and care about the characters. The only time I could truly understand the story was when it moved up to William Shakespeare's time. They died before I had a chance to know them or the people solving the crimes or the people doing the killing or even why the killing was occurring, except part of it was to get the relic back from whoever had it. My issue was not following who was dying and it seemed like there were a lot of victims with each story. I got that the relic was supposedly cursed and death followed in its wake.
It took me a little while to get into the story and then to understand everything that was going on. I listened to this at work and that might have been part of my not digging it as much as I could have. Finally, it's despatched to London, where Philip Gooden's Nick Revill will determine its ultimate fate. Thirty years later, several suspicious deaths occur in Cambridge - and, once again, the tainted relic has a crucial part to play. In 1323, in Exeter, Michael Jecks' Sir Baldwin has reason to suspect its involvement in at least five violent deaths. In Oxford in 1269, the discovery of a decapitated monk leads Ian Morson's academic sleuth William Falconer to uncover a link to the relic. Investigating the death, Bernard Knight's protagonist, Crowner John learns of its dark history. Several decades later, the Cross turns up in the possession of a dealer, robbed and murdered en route to Glastonbury. The relic is said to be cursed: anyone who touches it will meet an untimely and gruesome end. Amidst the chaos, an English knight is entrusted with a valuable religious relic: a fragment of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ. Finally, it's despatched to London, where it falls into the hands of Elizabethan players and where Philip Gooden's Nick Revill will determine its ultimate fate.July, 1100. Eventually, it arrives in Cambridge, in the middle of a contentious debate about Holy Blood relics that really did rage in the 1350s, where it meets Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael (Susanna Gregory). Next, it appears in a story by Ian Morson, solved by his character, the Oxford academic Falconer, and then it migrates back to Devon to encounter Sir Baldwin (Michael Jecks). After several decades, the relic appears in Devon, where it becomes part of a story by Bernard Knight, set in the 12th century and involving his protagonist, Crowner John. The relic is said to be cursed and, after three inexplicable deaths, it finds its way to England in the hands of a thief. The anthology centres around a piece of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ, which falls into the hands of Geoffrey Mappestone in 1100, at the end of the First Crusade.
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