num_pages: 512
description: It's January 1325 and England is a hotbed of paranoia under the reign of the increasingly unpredictable King Edward II and his lover Sir Hugh le Despenser. When the Queens lady-in-waiting is slaughtered and the hideously mutilated body of a man is found behind the throne Edward demands to be avenged. Despenser appoints experienced investigator Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock to track down the killer. In an age of corruptionwhere torture blackmail and murder are common political toolsBaldwin and Simon soon realize that uncovering the truth can be a deadly affair.
language: English
title: Dispensation of Death
publisher: Headline