Their lives are ones of quiet contemplation—and brutal murder. Christmas Eve, 1176. Brother Maurice, monk of Fairmore Abbey, awaits the night prayer bell. But there is only silence. Cursing his fellow brother Cuthbert’s idleness, he seeks him out—and in the darkness, finds him brutally murdered. Summoned from London to the isolated monastery on the Yorkshire Moors, Aelred Barling, clerk to the King’s justices...
Collects over thirty travel stories from Isabel Allende, Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, and other fiction authors documenting their travels to such destinations as Malawi, San Quentin, Luxembourg, and Mumbai.