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    A Trust Betrayed
    A Trust Betrayed
    A Trust Betrayed
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    A Trust Betrayed

    By Candace Robb

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    The acclaimed author of the Owen Archer Series “lovingly re-creates medieval Edinburgh” in a novel that introduces Scottish sleuth Margaret Kerr (Publishers Weekly).
     
    In the spring of 1297, the English army controls lowland Scotland and Margaret Kerr’s husband Roger Sinclair is missing. He had gone to Dundee in autumn, writing to Margaret with a promise to be home for Christmas, but it’s past Easter. He could be caught up in the swelling rebellion against the English—if he’s even alive. When his cousin is murdered on the streets of Edinburgh, Roger’s last known location, Margaret coerces her brother, a priest, to escort her to the city.
     
    She finds Edinburgh scarred by war—houses burnt, walls stained with blood, shops shuttered—and the townsfolk simmering with resentment, harboring secrets. Even her uncle, innkeeper Murdoch Kerr, meets her questions with silence. Desperate, Margaret makes alliances that risk both her own life and that of her brother in her search for answers. She learns that war twists love and loyalties, and that, until tested, we cannot know our own hearts, much less those of our loved ones.
     
    “Robb’s writing is so rich and historically true that this is a must for all lovers of historical mysteries.” —Historical Novel Society
     
    “Thirteenth-century Edinburgh comes off the page cold and convincing, from the smoke and noise of the tavern kitchen to Holyrood Abbey under a treacherous abbot. Most enjoyable.” —The List (Edinburgh)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 24, 2015
    ISBN9781682300053
    A Trust Betrayed
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    Candace Robb

    Candace Robb has read and researched medieval history for many years, having studied for a Ph.D. in Medieval & Anglo-Saxon Literature. She divides her time between Seattle and the UK, frequently visiting York to research the series. She is the author of eleven previous Owen Archer mysteries and three Kate Clifford medieval mysteries.

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    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this novel and I am looking forward to the sequel. I found the setting to be very convincing. One of the criterion for a book being readable and engrossing is that I am surprised to look up from the page and find that it is not a wet, chilly spring outside, it's the middle of summer and in the 90s.Robb notes that she has made a judicious use of Scots words, since lowland Scots actually sounded pretty much like the northern English. She does have a glossary in the back, which was very helpful once I found it. Also very useful are a series of maps zeroing in from a map of Britain to the neighborhood of Edinburgh where most of the action takes place.These are not the most charming characters that I have ever met in fiction, although I became fond of some of them, but they are very real: complex, fallible and struggling with the dilemmas in their lives. I care very much what happens to them and I am anxious to read the next installment to find out.The complexity of the Scottish political situation is made plain: there are two chief Scottish contenders for the throne, and unfortunately their adherents sometimes fight one another more than the English who are subjugating them.I love the cover design and illustration by John Martinez.
    • 3/5
      Good quick read with a decent plot.
    • 2/5
      Thumbs up for effacina's review below. I would have given it 2 1/2 stars, but I'm not sure how one does halves using this interface. Robb doesn't rise above the level of competence as a writer on this one, which is in stark contrast to her brilliant writing of the Owen Archer series. There she makes us care about her characters and their fates, whereas in A Trust Betrayed one feels like one is just killing time in the company of not terribly interesting characters in a tense yet strangely unexciting environment. This author can do, and has done, much better.
    • 2/5
      1297 scotland. Margaret Kerr's husband of 2 years has been away from home many months with no word and his cousin who went to look for him has been murdered, his body returned by Canon Andrew, her brother. she travles to Edinburgh to investigate and finds the town occupied by Edward I's army and everyone has secrets. She stays with her uncle murdoch at his tavern. Everyone knows all the answers she is seeking but because no one will tell her she causes trouble. this gets old and boring. There seems to be no really good reason why she is kept in the dark. The entire book would have been better condensed into three tight chapters. we know that athis is the beginning of a series dealing with the rebellion. My least favorite of the Robb books.
    • 3/5
      First novel in a series (of three so far). Young woman searching for missing husband during times of Scotish wars of independence vs. English king.
    • 4/5
      A Trust Betrayed by Candace Robb is the first in the Margaret Kerr of Perth series of mysteries. It's 1297 in Scotland. Edward the Longshanks, King of England, is butchering his way through Scotland. Scotland is divided in its loyalties between John Balliol and Robert Bruce. Things are going to hell in a handbasket, and Margaret Kerr's life is no exception.Her husband has been missing for months. Margaret sent his cousin Jack to Edinburgh to find him. Jack is murdered. Unable to stay in Dunfermline with her goodmother (mother-in-law) any longer, Margaret travels to Edinburgh with her brother Andrew, a priest, and Celia, a maid provided by her mother-in-law. Staying with her uncle, Murdoch, in his inn and tavern, Margaret helps him while she tries to find out what's happened to her husband Roger. She doesn't much like the information that turns up.This is another good book. The setting is perfection. Edinburgh occupied by English soldiers. William Wallace sneaking rides on ferries. A stubborn woman who insists on the truth from people who don't want the truth to hurt her. Robb has a light touch with Scots dialect, which makes the narrative very accessible. And--true to life--all the loose ends aren't tied up neatly at the end.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this novel and I am looking forward to the sequel. I found the setting to be very convincing. One of the criterion for a book being readable and engrossing is that I am surprised to look up from the page and find that it is not a wet, chilly spring outside, it's the middle of summer and in the 90s.Robb notes that she has made a judicious use of Scots words, since lowland Scots actually sounded pretty much like the northern English. She does have a glossary in the back, which was very helpful once I found it. Also very useful are a series of maps zeroing in from a map of Britain to the neighborhood of Edinburgh where most of the action takes place.These are not the most charming characters that I have ever met in fiction, although I became fond of some of them, but they are very real: complex, fallible and struggling with the dilemmas in their lives. I care very much what happens to them and I am anxious to read the next installment to find out.The complexity of the Scottish political situation is made plain: there are two chief Scottish contenders for the throne, and unfortunately their adherents sometimes fight one another more than the English who are subjugating them.I love the cover design and illustration by John Martinez.

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