THE LONG JOURNEY OF JOSLIN DE LAY1369. England is a dark, brutal place, riven by plague and rebellion. The long war with France is at its bitterest. Joslin de Lay is a young French minstrel. He lives with Guillaume, his father, in a castle in the Cotentin, the finger of land which points north towards the coast of Cornwall. Guillaume is minstrel of honour to the Count of Treauville. But their lives are disrupted when an embassage of English nobles arrive for secret talks with the Count. Guillaume is frightened when he sees them - and then murdered. His dying words set Joslin on a quest across the land of his enemies to find the murderer and the mother he never knew. And a mysterious stranger dogs his every step.BOOK 2 A PACT WITH DEATHA London Mystery. Joslin arrives with Alys at the house of Randolf Waygoode, the master painter. Death has followed him. After a watchman's terrifying encounter at the city gates a dead man is fished out of the Thames with a slit throat and plague boils on his skin. Two ways to die on the same body. Randolf and his household - wife, apprentices, labourers and Alysherself - are beset with horrors on all sides. Truly, a double-dealer in death stalks the city streets and Joslin has to find him before there are even more deaths, including his own...
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