1326. In an England riven with conflict, knight and peasant alike find their lives turned upside down by the warring factions of Edward II, with his hated favourite, Hugh le Despenser, and Edward's estranged queen Isabella and her lover, Sir Roger Mortimer. Yet even in such times the brutal slaughter of an entire family, right down to a babe in arms, still has the power to shock. Three further murders follow, and bailiff Simon Puttock is drawn into a web of intrigue, vengeance, power and greed as Roger Mortimer charges him to investigate the killings. Michael Jecks brilliantly evokes the turmo... View More...
July, 1193: Richard Lionheart, King of England and eldest son of queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, is prisoner in an Austrian dungeon. The Queen has raised a ransom to pay off the Holy Roman Emperor to secure her son's release, much to the annoyance of Richard's brother John, who is scheming to place the crown on his own head. When the ransom payment vanishes in the wilds of Wales - a country of rebellion and lawlessness - Eleanor sends her most trusted man to find and retrieve it. But Justine de Quincy has no way of knowing that he is about to set foot along a trail of murder and intrigue that will... View More...
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