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Synopsis
Candace Robb returns with the eighth novel in this highly acclaimed series of medieval mysteries featuring the one-eyed spy Owen Archer. October 1371. William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and late Lord Chancellor of England, rides to York with his men on King's Highway. He has just shamefully lost post and is scheming to get back into the good faith of the king. While passing a church under reconstruction, his men barely pull him out of the way of a falling tile that turns out to be no accident. Is his feud with the Duke of Lancaster, who swore that Wykeham would not regain the secular power he had enjoyed as chancellor, responsible for the attempt on his life? Owen Archer must find out.
Synopsis
York, England, October of 1371. A series of accidents is making William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, more paranoid than usual. Terrified that the family of a wealthy knight wants to assassinate him, he requests the aid of Owen Archer, the master spy. But Archer's concerns are for his own wife, Lucie, who recently lost the child she carried. Then a fire breaks out at the bishop's town house...and the body of a murdered woman turns up in the charred ruins. Now forced to investigate Wykeham's case, the one-eyed agent soon finds himself entangled in a dark scheme that involves knights, bishops, even kings. This plot can bring death into his very home-unless Archer sets a trap so cunning that no killer, no matter how influential and powerful, can ever escape.