The winter king : a Hawkenlye mystery

ISBN: 9781780104942 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1780104944 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource
Publisher: [England] : Severn House Publishers, 2014.

Summary: All Saint's Eve, 1211. An overweight but wealthy nobleman, desperate for an heir, dies at the celebration feast he's thrown in his own hall. A natural death . . . or at the hands of his reluctant new wife? Sabin de Gifford, an apothecary and healer of note, is called to examine the body, and concludes that he died of a spasm to the heart. But she is troubled, all the same, and beset by suspicions. Did the man really die of a heart attack? Or was something more sinister to blame? There is only one person Sabin can turn to for help: fellow healer Meggie, daughter of Sir Josse d'Acquin. But what she requires of her is dangerous indeed...