The Lark's Lament A Fools' Guild Mystery

In 1204, with the Fools' Guild in hiding and under attack by the forces of Pope Innocent III, jesters Theophilos and Claudia are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member, the minstrel Folquet, now a Cistercian abbot, to intercede with the pope, but a gruesome murder at the abbey forces them into a race against time, to solve the killing or become forever outcasts. 10,000 first printing.