Coming 1 February 2027

By the winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and a South African Literary Award

In the year 1292, a dying Flemish bishop sends for Mechthild, a death nurse, to tend to him in his final days. She is not a nun, but a beguine, a woman who has escaped both the convent and marriage to live (mostly) as she pleases.

But the bishop’s hopes and Mechthild’s plans must contend with church politics and, instead, she will work to expose a murder in the palace.

Claire Robertson’s medieval murder mystery The Good Death is as thrilling as it is cerebral.