{"product_id":"ashes-to-ashes-the-eighth-chronicle-of-hugh-de-singleton-surgeon-9781782641339","title":"Ashes to Ashes: The Eighth Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe morning after the festivities of Midsummer's Eve, the villagers of Bampton make a grisly discovery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaster Hugh, Kate, and their children attend the Midsummer's Eve fire. The next morning Hugh hears the passing bell ring from the Church of St. Beornwald, and moments later is summoned. Tenants collecting the ashes to spread upon their fields have found burned bones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaster Hugh learns of several men of Bampton and nearby villages who have gone missing recently. Most are soon found, some alive, some dead. Master Hugh eventually learns that the bones are those of a bailiff from a nearby manor. Someone has slain him and placed his body in the fire to destroy evidence of murder.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBailiffs are not popular men; they dictate labor service, collect rents, and enforce other obligations. Has this bailiff died at the hand of some angry tenant? Hugh soon discovers this is not the case. There is quite another reason for murder . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMel Starr was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating with a MA in history from Western Michigan University in 1970, he taught history in Michigan public schools for thirty-nine years, thirty-five of those in Portage, MI, where he retired in 2003 as chairman of the social studies department of Portage Northern High School. Mel and his wife, Susan, have two daughters and seven grandchildren.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lion Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433185612050,"sku":"9781782641339","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bdafd1a9-1dc0-45f8-af31-34575498d305.jpg?v=1729561184","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ashes-to-ashes-the-eighth-chronicle-of-hugh-de-singleton-surgeon-9781782641339","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}