A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary Offers Unique Halloween Experience

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Oct 05, 2015, 08:30 ET

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A black-draped casket flanked by orange candles, clouds of earthy-scented smoke, black-robed priests chanting in a minor key. The latest Dracula movie? An occult ritual? A creative Halloween spook house?

No, this scene from A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary, the latest in The Monastery Murders, is a modern-day service for All Souls' Day in a thoroughly orthodox church in Oxford, England.

A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary Offers Unique Halloween Experience

Felicity Howard, a young American woman who is studying theology in a monastery in England, has gone to Oxford to translate an ancient document in a convent. That should be a harmless enough venture, but Felicity just can't seem to avoid danger. It's hardly Felicity's fault, though, that severed body parts start showing up in ancient holy reliquaries—or that Felicity and one of the nuns is assaulted.

Then Antony, Felicity's church history lecturer and fiance, arrives in Oxford with a group of students, and Felicity experiences a Halloween such as she has never known before—first with the police, then in the emergency room getting her head bandaged. Late that night she realizes it's Halloween and recalls her childhood trick-or-treating with her brothers.

But there's nothing so light-hearted for Felicity this year, and the experience is just beginning. The reader lives it all with Felicity as the exultation of All Saints' Day plunges to the grief of All Souls'. Black-vested priests chant the Dies Irae amidst clouds of incense and the tolling of muffled bells, and Felicity finds yet another murdered body.

A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary will give you chills this Halloween.

About the Author:

Donna Fletcher Crow, an Idaho native, is a lifelong Anglophile and history buff. She has written forty-five books, most of them novels dealing with the history of British Christianity, including the Arthurian epic Glastonbury. A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary is the most recent release in her Monastery Murders series which also includes: A Very Private Grave, A Darkly Hidden Truth and An Unholy Communion.

Monastery Murder Links:

Donna Fletcher Crow's website

A Very Private Grave trailer

A Darkly Hidden Truth trailer

An Unholy Communion trailer

To request a review copy of A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary or an author interview contact:

Donna Fletcher Crow

Publications Marketing, Inc.

(208) 342-1394

Http://www.donnafletchercrow.com/

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