"In fourteenth-century Devon, runaway villeins were brutally punished if apprehended by their masters. But when Peter Bruther flees the home of Sir William Beauscyr, he puts himself in the protection of the king by setting up as a tin miner on the moors. And the baliff of Lydfor…
After Squire Roger dies, falling from his horse, his five year old son inherits. When he too dies, Baldwin is convinced that it was no accident, but so many had motives to kill poor young Herbert. Little do Baldwin and Simon realise how shocking and sinister this investigation w…
When a nun is murdered at St. Mary's Priory, Sir Baldwin Furnshill and his old friend Bailiff Simon Puttock are summoned to investigate, and they find that the three vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty are being broken with alarming frequency. When a second nun is murdered,…
Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock are sent to investigate the death of a young nun at a priory which seems to have become a center of sin and corruption.
Sir Baldwin Furnshill, former Knight Templar, knows much of duty and servitude and of evil freely indulged in name of godliness or greed. He helps a friend in the pursuit of justice.