Her perspective on those times comes through the eyes - or, rather, the eye - of Archer. These books - including her just-issued sixth novel, A Gift of Sanctuary - have allowed their author not only to employ the knowledge she gleaned in school, but to go further and thoroughly satisfy her curiosity about British society and politics during the Middle Ages. That opportunity came in the year after she left grad school, when Robb sat down to compose the short story that would later become The Apothecary Rose (1993), her first entry in a now-bestselling 14th-century mystery series starring Owen Archer. "I had all of this wonderful information in my head, and even though I didn't finish the degree, I wanted to make use of what I knew."
"I'm one of those all-but-the-dissertation people," she says with a gentle laugh, recalling her graduate study in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
I also enjoy the continuity of a series, the luxury of following characters for years."Ĭandace Robb is living proof that even the most obscure-seeming college study might eventually lead to a thriving career. "Writing within the structure of the detective novel is rather like writing sonnets - it's a very tidy structure, a disciplined structure, within which anything goes. Books by Candace Robb The Apothecary Rose (1993)
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