`The most wickedly plotted medieval mystery novels`
THE TIMES

The brooding Scilly Isles provide the backdrop to the sixteenth mystery featuring the ever-popular Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock in this ‘Tremendously successful medieval mystery series’ Sunday Independent

Forty years ago, Exeter Cathedral close rang to the clamour of weapons, shouts of defiance and screams of pain. Afterwards, the bodies lying in their own blood bore silent witness to the conflicts that were tearing at the heart of the Cathedral itself.

Today, in 1323, more deaths have occurred. Is the first an accident? The second is surely murder, brutal and foul. Once again vicious slaying has polluted the Cathedral close, but this time the killer will not be so easy to capture and execute. The victim, Henry Potell, a wealthy saddler, was feared and hated - he held secrets that some were keen to keep hidden and others wanted to see him destroyed for his savage deeds all those years ago…