A woman's body is found in a cottage, brutally impaled with a crucifix. The circumstances of her death leave DI Talantire baffled: this case has already happened, fifty years before…
King's Messenger Simon Merrivale accompanies an English delegation to Florence. When disaster strikes, he finds himself alone and far from home with a dozen different factions out for his blood.
Carrie Rickard throws herself obsessively into the restoration of Fairwood House, known to locals of Pagham-on-Sea as The Crows, the site of a gruesome unsolved murder years before.