"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…
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,…
