A Confusion of Sins is the 5th novel in the series of medieval mysteries featuring Sir Bellamy of Itchen and Magdalene la Bâtarde. It is 1139 and England is in turmoil. King Stephen has found an excuse to seize and imprison the elderly and powerful Bishop of Salisbury and his nephews, whom the King suspects of treason. The monk Bernard of Rouen, a favorite of the Bishop of Rouen—an ally of the King who will be attending the convocation appears to have been murdered shortly after having bee...