A Haunt of Murder — P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

AS NIGHT SETS IN, Chaucer's weary pilgrims find themselves in a Kent copse, rumoured to be haunted. Huddling around the fire, they persuade the Clerk of Oxford to tell a ghostly tale of love and death that will further chill their blood...

IT'S MAY DAY, 1381, and Beatrice Arrowner is on her way to Ravenscroft Castle to share in the feasting with the clerk, Ralph Mortimer. But the sinister events of the last few days soon cast a cloud over the festivities. Phoebe, a castle maid, has been murdered and Fulk, the local miller's son, has disappeared. So when another guest at Ravenscroft is found murdered, it seems that the evil spirits which haunt the Midnight Tower are doing their worst.

CERTAIN THAT THERE'S a connection between these events and his search for the legendary Brythnoth's jewelled cross, Ralph knows that his own life may be in danger...