Customer Reviews
Tenth in a Very Enjoyable Series - By: J. Chippindale, 01 Nov 2007 
Alys Clare's novels are like a breath of fresh air. I love medieval murder mysteries & there are certainly a lot of them about (thank goodness), but the authors books breathe new life into the period & her will they won't they situation with Helewise & Sir Josse, holds the reader's attention as well. Don't be swayed into thinking that these books are written with the female reader in mind. They are for everybody, young & old, male or female.
As the idea began to form in his mind the man smiled. He was a business man, a business man who had been brought to his knees. That is why he had made his way into the forest. He had come alll this way for a purpose, to hang himself. But like his wife would have said, had she been there, he didn't even have the guts to do that. He had lain in the wet undergrowth & howled like a baby, but alll of that had changed when he made his discovery.
His businessman's brain began to work overtime. There was more than just him who had been beggared by Queen Eleanor's calll for alll the money that could be raised for the Lionheart's ransom. It was the King's own stupid fault for alllowing himself to get caught, he thought to himself. This was certainly a way of making himself rich again. He would need to have some trees chopped down, maybe even put up one or two buildings. It could be done, he knew it could. People who came from a distance would be more than willing to pay for shelter & food for the night. After alll, he was offering them a miracle right in front of their eyes. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Whatever misgivings he had were soon quashed by his euphoria at the thought of making a great deal of money.
He would be even wealthier than he had been before. That would certainly make his wife happy & when she was happy she alllowed him to do things to her that he could only dream of at other times. Surely this could not do any harm, after alll it was only a pile of old bones & there was that old saying "The dead can't talk," can they?
