Set in the Middle Ages, during the plague years, Company of Liars follows a rag-tag group as they try to outrun the pestilence that's stalking the land. Told from the perspective of a member of this company, Camelot, a seller of 'relics', the story unfolds and it appears misfortune and death is stalking the group, or is it?
I'd read Maitland's The Owl Killers, and a friend had told me I'd probably like this one too. And I did!
I quite like historical fiction written with a good feel for the period in which it's set, and Maitland writes well. The story's involving, and the characters all have dark secrets that threaten them, which adds to the mystery of why they hear a lone wolf howling in the night, and what exactly is out to get them, and who is the creepy little girl, Narigorm? As it unravels the narrative becomes more sinister and darker, and the plague stalks ever closer.
Thursday, 27 May 2010
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