Author Maureen Ash takes the reader to 11th century Lincoln, where Templar Knight Bascot and his young protege Gianni have come to live after Bascot's time away on crusade.
Squire Hubert is found hanging from a tree near the carcass of a poached deer. Did he surprise the poacher and die as a result? Bascot is assigned the task of finding the murder.
Gianni, being a mute, is thought also to be deaf by many, so he is able to listen in on many conversations. As a result of one such conversation he heads off on his own into the forest to gather information, which may help his master solve the crime. Unfortunately he is take captive by an outlaw gang. Could this outlaw gang, who want to exchange Gianni for one of their own, be responsible for the murder of Hubert?
In the meantime, the citizens of Lincoln are preparing for the visit of King John. Throughout the story there are plots within plots ~ a good historical murder mystery.
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