Those Who Go By Night
New York: Crooked Lane, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the author's book. Hardcover. 287 pp. A gruesome murder in a sleepy 14th century English village sets the stage for this taut drama laced with witcgcraft, depravity, and long-buried secrets. When a beggar is murdered in the village and his body draped across the church altar in a perverse pose of pagan sacrifice, the Pope's Inquistor General places the small town in his sights. To forestall the Inquisitor, the Bishop of Lincoln sends Thomas Lester, son od a disgraced Templar Knight, to investigate. Thomas's investigation uncovers a nest of perfidious players---the local lord's secretive wife, a Irishwoman accused of witchcraft, a depraved chaplain who has left a trial of murder and blackmail in his wake. Fine / fine. Item #E33480
ISBN: 9781683318408
Price: $19.95