Description

In summer time of 1380 a French captain is killed in Hawkmere Manor—an unhappy, dismal home area normally referred to as the Devil’s Domain—which can be used by Regent John of Gaunt to accommodate French prisoners taken throughout the bloody struggles fought around the Narrow Seas. Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan are summoned to research the strange death but their route is riddled with obstacles. Could the killer have joined the Frenchman’s step once the area was secured from within how? Their guide in the analysis, Friend Maurice Maltravers, is more of a burden than the usual help because of his struggling with the agony of heartbreak.