<h2>Deadly secrets dwell behind closed doors...</h2><p>In the summer of 1380 a French captain is murdered in Hawkmere Manor ¿ a lonely, gloomy dwelling place, otherwise known as the ¿Devil¿s Domain¿.</p><p>The house is used by <b>Regent John of Gaunt</b> to house French prisoners, captured during the bloody battles waged between the French and the English on the Narrow Seas.</p><p><b>Sir John Cranston</b> and <b>Brother Athelstan</b> are summoned to investigate the mysterious death but their path is riddled with obstacles. How could the murderer have entered the Frenchman¿s chamber when the room was locked from within?</p><p><b>Brother Athelstan is back in another full-throttle medieval mystery, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and S. J. Parris.</b></p>