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A royal birth, a nobleman's loss of life, and a scarlet woman's murder. In March 1279, Edward I takes a chance from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to getaway in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the voyage at Woodstock Manor. There, one life begins as the queen gives birth to a little girl, and one draws to a finish as apoplexy fells Baron Adam Wynethorpe. Hastening to the baron's deathbed is his eldest child, Hugh, a veteran of Edward's Crusades who can't get rid of the fight horrors he has observed. The baron's little girl, Prioress Eleanor, has recently arrived to have a tendency to her father, bringing along her subinfirmarian, Sister Anne, and the monk Brother Thomas. Awaiting Hugh is his illegitimate child, Richard, a junior filled with rebellion - and a key. The royal manor is filled with troubling guests, including a sinister priest, an older Jewish mom mourning a child hanged for the treason of coin-clipping, contentious and greedy courtiers, and a lusty partner engaged with more than one enthusiast. Quite soon, the partner is available hanged. Prioress Eleanor and Sister Anne persuade the high sheriff of Berkshire that Mistress Hawis' loss of life was not a suicide. Actually, many at the manor experienced reason to wish Hawis lifeless. And one of the suspects is Richard. In her 12th book, Royal once again "amplifies and deepens her series characters in the service of an clever story that elevates her work to the very best rank of historical enigma freelance writers", as Web publishers Regular said in a starred overview of Satan's Lullaby, the 11th in a string advised by Sharon Kay Penman and favorably in comparison to Ellis Peters' Cadfael books.
