Book description
High summer in the year of our Lord 1365, and Owen Archer finds
himself once again called upon by Archbishop Thoresby to exercise his
skills as detective. While York celebrates the feast of Corpus
Christi, a man is murdered in the shadow of the Minster, his right
hand severed. All the evidence points to a wool merchant last seen
quarrelling with the dead man.
But a complex web of rivalries surrounds the wool traders, and Owen
is unsure where to turn first. His only witness is a young boy, his
only suspect a mysterious hooded woman - and neither can be found.
With Thoresby preoccupied at Windsor with the King, Owen is under
intense pressure to solve the case, but he soon finds himself ensnared
in a plot devised by very powerful masters...
Candace Robb has read and researched medieval history for many years,
having studied for a Ph. D in Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Literature. She
is the author of nine Owen Archer novels and three Margaret Kerr
Mysteries.
