
The death of Lord Henry Fitzalan on the feast of St Matthew 1303 is a matter widely reported but little mourned. Infamous for his lecherous tendencies his midnight trysts with a coven of witches & his boundless self-interest he was a man of few friends. So when Hugh Corbett is asked to bring his murderer to justice it is not a matter of finding a suspect but of choosing between them. Immediate suspicion falls on Lord Henrys chief verderer Robert Verlian. His daughter had been the focus of the Lords roving eye in the weeks before his death & Fitzalan was not a man to take no for an answer. But the culprit could just as easily be Sir William the dead mans younger brother. It is no secret that Sir William covets the Fitzalan estate but would he kill to inherit it? For Sir Hugh Corbett the possibilities are endless but even he could never have imagined the real truth behind the murder...