The Red Hill: 1 (Thomas Berrington Historical Mystery)

A killer who cant be stopped. A request that cant be refused. In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom. When bodies start to turn up each showing the marks of a savage attack Thomas is asked to investigate. When one of the Sultans wives is brutally murdered what begins as a reluctant task turns into a fight for survival. Together with the eunuch Jorge Thomas attempts to hunt down the killer before they become his next victims. Except nothing is as it seems-friends turn into enemies and enemies into friends. Thomass investigation lays bare the secrets of the Red Hill and the people who inhabit it. His discoveries culminate in a battle not only for his own life but for the lives of those he loves.