The Devil's Domain

A time of bloody tribulation! Of horrid sights! The season of murder and subtle trickery! Thus proclaims the chronicler of Westminster in the summer of 1380, as the British and French wage war in the Narrow Seas. So starts the eighth title in The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan when he is called in to investigate the poisoning of a Frenchman held hostage by John of Gaunt.