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Baba Chessy and Bianca is a book about a medieval midwife who escaped from a witch hunt and found solitary refuge with her cat Bianca on a Dalmatian island, in Croatia.
In the year 1356 a midwife escaped from a witch hunt and made her way to a Dalmatian island, where she found refuge in a sleepy village, hoping to hide from her pursuers, the ecclesiastical tribunal called the Inquisition. For five years she and her cat Bianca lived in solitary seclusion, interacting with villagers only when necessary. The villagers knew nothing about her, and eventually they called her Baba Chessy – Grandmother Garlic – because of the superior garlic she grew in her large garden.
In her fifth year on the island, however, she ventured from her safe haven to help a young girl from a neighboring village whose mother had been poisoned. The story of how Baba Chessy and Bianca learned the surprising truth behind the poisoning is told in the Bell Poison mystery.
Little by little Baba Chessy was drawn into the lives of the villagers. In the Devil Rocks mystery she helps a church warden find redemption in an explosive enterprise, and in the Olive Revenge mystery she saves a poor olive grower from wrongful death. As she became more and more involved in village life, she found her closed heart opening.