Indrek Hargla - Melchior és a tallinni krónika

Tallinn, Anno Domini 1432. In the fifth part of the crime series set in the Middle Ages, the events center around a mysterious chronicle found in the Dominican monastery. Just when the Guild of Corpus Christi organizes the Lord's Day mystery game for the first time, following the example of other Hanseatic cities. According to the chronicle, once upon a time, Knights Templar visited Tallinn and initiated a townsman into their secrets. The discovery of the text is followed by a series of murders, and the threads lead to the Holy Body Guild, of which Melchior is a member. Interestingly, the key to solving the mysteries may be in the hands of Carstine, a girl afflicted with a horrible birth defect, who, hiding from the eyes of the world, lives in oblivion in St. John's Hospital for lepers. Nothing can escape the apothecary's sharp eye, based on the clues, the story slowly unfolds, as always: a mysterious chapel, an incestuous marriage, murder attempts within the family, strange poisonings... until at the end of the novel, Melchior shrewdly reveals it to his guildmates the identity of the killer...