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Rosie Lear

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in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, The United Kingdom

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Historical Fiction, Medieval Mystery

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Rosie was born during the Second World War with a book in one hand and a pen in the other, so she was told!
A teacher of English literature all her working life, she also raised four children with her husband and owned and ran a small hotel in Cornwall.
Now widowed and living in Dorset, her love of historical fiction inspired her to seek out local stories worth spinning into mystery novels. Sherborne proved to have a fascinating blend of arrogant monks and angry townspeople, a smashed font and a priest who set fire to the Abbey...a real gift to the imagination.
When not writing and dreaming up new situations, Rosie enjoys theatre, both amateur and professional, cooking for friends, reading most of the time, gardening and seeing her three grand ...more

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Average rating: 4.54 · 100 ratings · 2 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Quenchless Fire (Matthias Barton Book 2) 4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missal for Murder 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tale of Two Abbeys (Matthias Barton Book 3) 4.68 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spare the Rod: The fourth Matthias Barton Mystery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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At last, the fourth book in the Sherborne Medieval Mysteries is out! But what a business it has been getting it this far! I’ve never had to send back the proofs so many times, and even now the cover is not quite right so another little delay. It is certainly throat cutting time! Now I just need to get it out to all the readers who have enjoyed the life of Matthias Barton and his growing cohort of Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 20, 2020 04:05 • Tags: medieval-fiction, sherborne-mysteries

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Rosie Lear rated a book really liked it The Anger of God (Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #4) by Paul Doherty	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is full of life and has several strings to the tale. The historical background is easy to understand but there are several strands of non historical narratives which gives the book a feeling of being many layered. The coroner is alarger than lif ...more
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Rosie Lear liked pamela titterington's review of A Quenchless Fire (Matthias Barton Book 2): "Good reading I am really starting to like the main characters ,and look forward to reading much more about them and the times they lived in"
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Rosie Lear and 1 other person liked Angie Taylor's review of A Quenchless Fire (Matthias Barton Book 2): "I like this book, indeed the two books of this series which I have read in the space of less than a week, very much. There is a charming, effortless sense of honour about Mathias and his circle which is very refreshing. There is also a good story her" Read more of this review »
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, told in the first person by Alice Perrers, mistress of Edward III. Alice Perrier’s is often portrayed as a greedy selfish gold digger who rose too high in court but Emma Campion, aka Candace Robb, paints a different pic ...more
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