Belladonna at Belstone C. J. Sansom Most of his fanciful notions

Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine

This is 'the hard problem' which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike

Dreamlike and yet impossibly real

should try to prevent the truth from being revealed

Belladonna at Belstone C. J. Sansom Most of his fanciful notionsWhen Moll, a young nun, dies mysteriously at St. Mary's Priory in Belstone, England, the suffragan bishop orders Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, to investigate. Together with Bailiff Simon Puttock, his assistant in seven other puzzles in Jecks's delightful medieval series (The Last Templar, The Crediton Killings, etc.), Baldwin travels to Belstone, which is in a disgraceful state; greed, drunkenness and sexual license have all