The Song of a Dark Angel — P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

A COLD, CRUEL WIND sweeps across the Wash and chills those who live in the small villages along the Norfolk coast. But the wind, called the Dark Angel because of its treacherous effect on both sea and land, is nothing compared to the evil plotted in the human heart.

In November 1302, Sir Hugh Corbett, King Edward I's Keeper of the Secret Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are sent to Mortlake Manor to confront such evil. A man's headless corpse has been found on the beach, the head impaled on a pole; at the same time, the pretty young wife of a local baker is found hanging from a gallows -- and the scene is set for more gruesome deaths. Corbett soon realises that the icy wastes of Norfolk where the eerie song of the Dark Angel can still be heard are just as treacherous as the silken intrigue at the royal court or the violence of London's fetid alleyways...