The House of Shadows

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In the late autumn of 1380, Brother Athelstan is busy. He and his parish council are preparing for the annual Christmas mystery play when a series of brutal murders occur at a Southwark tavern. Two young whores are found slain in the tavern's hay barn. But their deaths are only the beginning of a sequence of gruesome killings which occur around the parish of St Erconwald's.

A whole list of mysterious characters assemble to this pageant of murder: the Misericord, master thief and cunning man; the Judas man, a bounty hunter who tracks down outlaws and wolfheads; and finally the Knights of the Golden Falcon, who assemble at the tavern knows as the 'Night in Jerusalem' to celebrate their annual reunion.

Brother Athelstan and Sir John Cranston have to resolve not only these grisly deaths but also their source - the Great Robbery of the Lombard treasure which occurred at Southwark some twenty years earlier...

The tenth brilliant book in the Brother Athelstan series.