The Merchant's Partner: Michael Jecks

Book II of Knight's Templar. In fourteenth century Devon...Midwife and healer Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by superstitious villagers of Wefford, yet she has no shortage of callers, from the humblest to the highest. But when her body is found frozen and mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning, there seem to be no clues as to who is responsible - until a local youth runs away and a hue and cry is raised. Sir Baldwin Furnhill, Keeper of the King's Peace, is not convinced of the lad's guilt and soon manages to persuade his close friend Simon Puttock, bailiff of Lydford Castle, to help with the investigation. As they search for the true culprit, the darker side of the village - all the suspicion, jealousy and disloyalty emerges. And what is driving the young foreigner, son of a nobleman, who has visited the sleepy area only to disappear down toward the moors? Cover art by Danuta Mayer.