Edward's Outlaw: 3 (The Folville Chronicles)

January 1330: King Edward IIIs England is awash with the corruption and criminal activity that his mother Queen Isabella had turned a blind eye to - providing it was to her advantage. Now having claimed the Crown for his own Edward is determined to clean up England. Encouraged by his new wife Philippa of Hainault and her special advisor- a man who knows the noble felons of the countries Midland region very well- King Edward sends a messenger to Roger Wennesley of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire with orders to work with the county sheriff to arrest five of the Folville brothers...including the newly married Robert de Folville. Robert takes his wife Mathilda to Rockingham Castle for her own safety but no sooner has he left when a maid is found murdered in the castles beautiful guest suite the Fire Room. The dead girl looks a lot like Mathilda. Was she the target or is Mathilda de Folvilles life in danger? Asked to investigate by the sheriff in exchange for him deliberately taking his time in the hunt for her husband Mathilda soon uncovers far more than murder...a web of carefully laid deception which trails from London to Derbyshire and beyond...