Michael Jecks' books have won wide acclaim in the UK and abroad, and been shortlisted for prizes such as the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His Medieval West Country mysteries have a TCM of over 185K. Jecks has been the organiser of the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger and a judge for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. In 2016 he was honoured to be elected as Hon. Secretary of the prestigious Detection Club. @MichaelJecks michaeljecks.co.uk
Also by Michael Jecks
The Medieval West Country Mysteries
The King of Thieves
No Law in the Land
The Bishop Must Die
The Oath
King’s Gold
City of Fiends
Templar’s Acre
The Hundred Years War Series
Fields of Glory
Blood on the Sand
Novels
Act of Vengeance
Blood of the Innocents
First published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2019
by Black Thorn, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2019 by Black Thorn
First published in 2016 by Severn House Publishers Ltd,
Eardley House, 4 Uxbridge Street, London W8 7SY
blackthornbooks.com
Copyright © Michael Jecks, 2019
The moral right of the author has been asserted
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is purely coincidental.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78689 497 7
eISBN 978 1 78689 515 8
This book is dedicated to the memory of Beryl Joan Jecks
22nd March 1929 – 4th October 2015
Miss you, Mum.
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