Book description
SATAN IN ST MARY'S 1284: Edward I is battling a traitorous movement
founded by the late Simon de Montfort, the rebel who lost his life at
the Battle of Evesham in 1258. The Pentangle, the movement's underground
society whose members are known to practice the black arts, is thought
to be behind the apparent suicide of Lawrence Duket, one of the King's
loyal subjects. The King, deeply suspicious of the affair, orders his
wily Chancellor, Burnell, to look into the matter. Burnell chooses a
sharp and clever clerk from the Court of King's Bench, Hugh Corbett, to
conduct the investigation. Corbett - together with his manservant,
Ranulf - is swiftly drawn into the tangled politics and dark and
dangerous underworld of medieval London. CROWN IN DARKNESS 1286: on a
storm-ridden night, King Alexander III of Scotland is riding across the
Firth of Forth to meet his beautiful French bride Yolande. He never
reaches his final destination as his horse mysteriously slips, sending
them both crashing to their death on the rocks. The Scottish throne is
left vacant of any real heir and immediately the great European princes
and the powerful nobles of Alexander's kingdom start fighting for the
glittering prize. The Chancellor of England, Burnell, ever mindful of
the interest his king, Edward I, has in Scotland, sends his faithful
clerk, Hugh Corbett, to report on the chaotic situation at the Scottish
court. Concerned that a connection exists between the king's death and
those now desirous of taking the Scottish throne, Corbett is drawn into
a maelstrom of intrigue, conspiracy and danger. SPY IN CHANCERY Edward I
of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means,
has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in
France, and is now determined to crush Edward. King Edward suspects that
his enemy is being aided by a spy in the English court and commissions
his chancery clerk, Hugh Corbett, to trace and, if possible, destroy the
traitor. Corbett's mission brings him into danger on both land and at
sea, and takes him to Paris, and its dangerous underworld, and then to
hostile Wales. Unwillingly he is drawn into the murky undercurrents of
international politics in the last decade of the thirteenth century.
Dean Koontz is the author of 58 New York Times bestsellers, of which 15
have risen to No. 1. His books have sold over 450 million copies
worldwide, a figure that increases by more than 17 million copies per
year, and his work is translated into 38 languages. He was born and
raised in Pennsylvania and lives with his wife Gerda and their dog Anna
in Southern California.
