Book description
Five years ago in the village of Melford, a local lord, Sir Roger
Chapeley, was executed for a spate of vicious murders. But now other
young girls have been violated and garrotted, and the dead lord's son,
Maurice, insists that a miscarriage of justice has taken place. As if in
support of his assertion, someone is exacting their own kind of justice
as, one by one, the leaders of the jury which sent the lord to the
gibbet are brutally murdered. Edward of England sends his chief clerk,
Sir Hugh Corbett, to Melford to discover the truth. Seeking connections
between the deaths, Corbett faces the difficult task of unveiling the
secrets of a distrustful community who it seems increasingly likely are
the victims of a serial murderer. But who then is killing the jurors?
One thing is certain, whoever the killer, or killers, may be, they will
do anything to stop their identity being revealed... The twelfth book in
the wonderful 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.
