Nightshade (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 16)January 1304 and Hugh Corbett, devoted emissary of King Edward I, has been charged with yet another dangerous mission. Scrope, an unscrupulous manor lord, has reneged on his promise to hand over a priceless ornate cross he stole from the Templars during the Crusades. Furthermore, he has massacred as heretics fourteen members of a religious order, whose corpses now hang in the woods near Mistleham in Essex. The King, determined to restore order, sends

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Chaucer's pilgrims are sheltering in a friary as they slowly wind their way towards Canterbury

the hostility of those who can never forgive him for a young lad's death - and the black wall within him that separates him from his past

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