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.
Following the middle years of the life of Alfred the Great, as he gathers troops from each corner of the British Isles to launch a counterattack upon the invading Vikings.
Philippe Kermorvant, unfairly dismissed from the French Navy, accepts command of a privateer from its enigmatic owner. But the mission quickly unravels and leads him into mortal danger.