Lentorama 2024: Clerical Crime Solvers

Day 11: Brother Rodric Chandler

The throne of England is rumored to be under threat from Henry Bolingbroke, cousin to King Richard II, who is now back from exile in France. As tension between the two rise, a novice nun from Barking Abbey is found murdered, and the clerical connection leads the coroner to ask his friend, Brother Rodric, to help figure out why the nun was killed and who did the deed.

Rodric is reluctant to help, what with already acting as a spy for Bolingbroke. But he takes up the case, and as you might expect the murder and the political intrigue are related, and put Rodric in a difficult spot not only due to his loyalties, but due to the danger he is in if he's revealed to be in Bolingbroke's camp.

Rodric was created by Cassandra Clark, who has another, longer-running series which will show up later in this Lentorama. As far as I can tell the two series are not related.