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| ISBN: 0 7472 5061 8 |
In Paris in 1307 a Knight Templar watches, grieves
and swears vengeance as his friends die at the stake, their Order
destroyed by Pope Clement. Nine years later, in Devon, the newly appointed
Bailiff of Lydford Castle, Simon Puttock, is called to a village where
a charred body has been found in a burned-out cottage. Unaccustomed
to violence in this peaceful area, Simon assumes it's accidental death
- but Sir Baldwin Furnshill, recently returned from abroad, quickly
convinces him that the victim had been killed before the fire began.
As Simon and the astute yet strangely reticent knight piece the evidence
together, word comes of another murder, more horrible by far, for
in this case the victim was undoubtedly burned alive. Are the two
incidents connected - and will the killers strike again?
The colours and smells of fourteenth-century Devon come vividly to life in this riveting tale of petty jealousy, burning passion and brutal revenge. |
