The Pardoner's Crime - Hardcover

It is 1322 and Sir Richard Lee, Sergeant-at-Law, has been sent to Sandal Castle by King Edward 11 to preside over the court of the Manor of Wakefield.Within hours of his arrival, Sir Richard and his assistant Hubert of Loxley are forced to investigate a vicious rape and a cold-blooded murder. Yet as the township prepares for the forthcoming Wakefield mystery plays the strangest case of all is brought before him. The Pardoner, Albin of Rouncivale, throws himself upon the mercy of the court and confesses to a crime that everyone believed had been committed by the outlaw Robin Hood.Sir Richard must move quickly to discover the truth, for he suspects that the very stability of the realm and indeed the crown itself may depend upon it.

Keith Souter graduated in medicine from the University of Dundee and has worked as a family doctor in Wakefield for many years. He lives within arrow-shot of historic Sandal Castle. After winning the Fish 2006 Historical One-Page Prize with his short story, A Villain's Tale, he felt compelled to write the historical crime novel that had been lurking in the back of his mind for several years. The Pardoner's Crime is the result.