Lentorama 2024: Clerical Crime Solvers

Day 28: Brother Athelstan

Brother Athelstan is a Dominican friar, priest of St. Erconwald's in London's Southwark district, and secretary to the city of London's coroner.  Most of the mysteries that Athelstan gets involved in fall into the locked room variety - sometimes literally - where he has to figure out how someone was able to commit a murder under impossible circumstances.

As with many of the series set in English history, Athelstan also has to juggle his religious and detective work with political upheavals. The series is set in the 14th century during the reign of Richard II, which was never particularly stable, and covers the period leading up to and including the Peasant's Revolt, also know as Wat Tyler's Rebellion.