Vale of tears

A fast-paced and suspenseful medieaval mysteryApril, 1144.

A body is found floating by Fladbury mill, a man who has been stabbed but not robbed.

Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll and their young apprentice Walkelin discover him to be a horse dealer with a beautiful young wife who strays.

Did the wife or a lover get rid of him? What link is there to a defrocked monk who was hanged for theft, and where is the horse dealer's steed?The trio must unravel the thread that ties together seemingly disparate deaths before even more people die.