Medieval Murder in Toulouse

I launched my novel, Love’s Knife, in France last weekend and promised to post the slideshow. Here it is. Images are numbered to coincide with the images in the text of my talk. Tracey Warr, Writing Medieval Murder at Library Lit, Parisot Library, 82160 France Saturday 16 November 2024  [1 title slide] Love’s Knife [2 slide] has been…

Murder, lies and art

Currently researching for the medieval murder mystery I’m writing and discovering that the range of potential murderous motives at the end of the 11th century in the Toulouse/Pyrenees area are legion. The establishment of the lucrative pilgrim route to Compostela; the salt trade; papal policy over reform, reconquest in Spain and pressure on aristocratic consanguineous marriages,…