The Butcher of St Peter's

Michael Jecks

Exeter, 1323.

A strange man is entering people's houses at night, causing panic amongst householders, because this is man who likes children. And although many had thought him harmless, now he seems to have committed murder. A man lies dead in his own home, slaughtered merely for trying to protect his children, and the folk of Exeter want this menace caught and hanged.

For Sir Baldwin De Furnshill, the death is suspicious. The dead man was an enthusiatic seeker of felons, a King's officer in the city of Exeter, and he had many enemies, especially among the criminals who infest the filthy suburbs where the brothels lie.

BUT THE WHOLE CITY IS ON EDGE. The friars are preaching against the Cathedral Chapter, and there are allegations of theft in the Dean's house, all at a time when the King's friends are setting knight against knight and lord against lord. As the country prepares for yet another civil war, and the city's new Coroner appears to want to set himself agsinst the King's allies, Baldwin knows that finding this murderer is going to be very difficult indeed.

AND WHEN TWO MORE PEOPLE are found dead, the city of Exeter shudders at the thought that there could be a killer out there who is determined enough to strike again and again.....

ex-library hardcover with plastic covered dust-jacket in good condition