1361, York. As the country attempts to recover from the Hundred Years’ War with France, nobleman and commoner alike start to have another concern: whispers that the pestilence, one of the ultimate equalizers, has returned to England. But murder stops for nothing, and Sir Ralph de Mandeville, ex-solider and newly appointed Justice of the Peace, is sent to just outside York to investigate the murder of Coroner Sir Boderick de Whitby. More deaths quickly follow, and while these are claimed as some to be plague […]
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise”- Albert Camus
Desolation: A Ralph de Mandeville Mystery by Keith Moray
