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VALE OF TEARS: A BRADECOTE AND CATCHPOLL MYSTERY BY SARAH HAWKSWOOD PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY
April 1144. A body is found fl oating in Fladbury mill leat - a man in green who has been stabbed but not robbed. The lord sheriff’s trio discover him to be an Evesham horse dealer, who has a beautiful young wife who ‘ strays’. Did the wife or one of her lovers get rid of him? The trio have to work seamlessly together to unravel the thread that links seemingly incomparable deaths before even more people die, and in the process keep Walkelin from the noose.
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH: A BRADECOTE AND CATCHPOLL MYSTERY
BY SARAH HAWKSWOOD PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY
June 1144. A naked corpse of a man is found and the Prince of Powys’s messenger fails to reach Earl Robert of Gloucester. Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin head to Wales to confi rm his identity, and piece together evidence that he deserved a noose rather than a dagger. Retracing his steps leads them to a manor with a sarcastic lord, a neglected wife, a bitter mother and a fevered brother, all amidst folk who do not want the truth uncovered. The lord sheriff’s men have to unravel a knot where the law and justice seem to be in opposition.
SERVANT OF DEATH: A BRADECOTE AND CATCHPOLL MYSTERY BY SARAH HAWKSWOOD PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY
The much- feared and hated Eudo ( the Lord Bishop of Winchester’s clerk) is bludgeoned to death in Pershore Abbey and laid before the altar. Everyone who had contact with him had reason to dislike him, but who had reason to kill him? The Sheriff of Worcestershire’s thief taker, wily Serjeant Catchpoll, and his new superior, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, have to fi nd the answer. And as the claustrophobic walls of the Abbey close in on the suspects, the killer strikes again.
RIVER OF SINS: A BRADECOTE AND CATCHPOLL MYSTERY
BY SARAH HAWKSWOOD PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY
July, 1144. The body of a woman is found butchered on an island a few miles upriver from Worcester - how did she get there, who killed her, and why? Uncovering the details of Ricolde’s life and her past reveal a woman with hidden depths and hidden miseries which are fundamental to the answers, but time has cast a thick veil over the killer’s identity. The lord sheriff’s men have a trail that went cold over 20 years ago, and evidence that contradicts itself. Undersheriff Bradecote and Serjeant Catchpoll will need all their wits to solve this mystery.