Angel Of Death: P.C. Doherty

In 1298, Edward I invaded Scotland, brutally sacked the town of Berwick and razed the legal trading Red House of the Flemings to the ground - an act that would have far-reaching repercussions. One year later, Edward convened a great assembly of the realm in St Paul's Cathedral. They were to hear Mass, after which the main celebrant, Walter de Montfort, had been delegated to lecture the king on not taxing the Church. But during the Mass, de Montfort died a sudden and violent death. Hugh Corbett, the King's clerk, was taxed with solving the mystery and tracking down the murderer. His investigations, while Edward struggles to maintain himself at home and abroad, become tortuous and laced with danger before he discovers exactly how a man could be murdered in full view of the King and the country's notables.