Through the Valley of Death

About the Book

Brother Anselm is dead, and it’s not the plague—it’s murder. Who would want to kill a monk in a Cistercian monastery in 1379? As it turns out, this brother has a lot of enemies. The unhappy task of finding the killer falls to Brother Barnabas, a monk who’s gifted in logic, but dangerously innocent of the ways of the world. Before his investigation is over, Barnabas learns more than he really wanted to know about the evil that men—and even monks—do.

About the Author

E.M.A. Allison is the pen name of Eric Allison and Mary Ann Allison. Both are university professors who frequently collaborate on books and articles, including cross-disciplinary studies drawing on their very different fields; Mary Ann in Media Studies and Complex Systems and Eric in Historic Preservation and Livable Cities.