Book description
November 1302, and Sir Hugh Corbett, Edward I's Keeper of the Secret
Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are
sent to Mortlake Manor on the Norfolk coast to confront an evil rarely
seen before. A man's headless corpse, its head impaled on a pole, has
been found on a beach and the pretty young wife of a local baker has
been found hanging from a gallows. The scene is set for more gruesome
deaths and Corbett soon realises that the icy wastes of Norfolk, where
the eerie song of the Dark Angel wind chills those that live in the
small villages along the coast, are just as treacherous as the silken
intrigue at the royal court or the violence of London's fetid
alleyways... The eighth thrilling novel in the Hugh Corbett series.
Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied History at Liverpool
and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis on
Edward II and Queen Isabella. He is now headmaster of a school in
north-east London and lives with his family in Essex.
