Third title in a gripping medieval mystery series following the best- selling prequels The Crooked Spire and The Saltergate Psalter. 1364: The plague has returned and fear fills the air as the pestilence claims its first victims in Chesterfield. When the local priest vanishes, John the Carpenter believes the man is simply scared - until he discovers a body left in an empty house. Charged with finding the murderer by the coroner, John must dig deep into the past to discover who in the present has enough hatred to kill. But as the roll of the dead grows longer, can he keep his family safe from malign forces outside of his control? AUTHOR: Chris Nickson is a popular crime novelist and music journalist whose fiction has been named best of the year by Library Journal. Specialising in historical crime, Chris is the author of the Richard Nottingham series for Severn House, as well as four series set in Leeds and the John the Carpenter series, set in medieval Chesterfield.