num_pages: 261
description: April 1193. England's King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard's younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal "queen's man," Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible--mediate a truce with her rebel son.Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler's daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened French invasion can keep him from investigating her death. Yet can he bring Melangell's craven killer to justice?
language: English
title: Cruel as the Grave
titlecomplete: Cruel as the Grave  (Justin de Quincy, #2)
characters: Eleanor of Aquitaine
genres: Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, 12th Century, Fiction, Medieval, Crime
ratings_count: 3583
places: England
series: Justin de Quincy
publisher: Ballantine Books