Jack Blackjack stands accused of killing a priest in the wickedly
entertaining new Bloody Mary Tudor mystery.
April, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St
Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by the
roadside - and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder.
As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to
find out who really killed the priest - but this is an investigation
where nothing is as it seems. Was it a random attack by a desperate
outlaw, or do the answers lie in the murdered priest's past? As he
questions those who knew the dead man, Jack is faced with a number of
conflicting accounts - and it's clear that not everyone can be telling
him the whole truth.
But Jack is about to be sidetracked from the investigation ... with
disastrous consequences.