A CHOIR OF CROWS

December, 1374. With the great and the good about to descend on York for the enthronement of the new archbishop, the city authorities are in a state of high alert. When two bodies are discovered in the grounds of York Minster, and a flaxen-haired youth with the voice of an angel is found locked in the chapter house, Owen Archer, captain of the city bailiffs, is summoned to investigate.

At the same time, an enigmatic figure from Owen's past has arrived in the city. Why has he returned from France after all these years—and what is his connection with the bodies in the minster yard?

Before Owen can make headway in the investigation, a third body is fished out of the river—and the captain finds himself with three mysterious deaths to solve before the all-powerful Neville family arrives in York.

Candace Robb is the bestselling author of more than a dozen crime novels set in fourteenth-century England, Wales, and Scotland, including the acclaimed Owen Archer series and the Margaret Kerr trilogy. Writing as Emma Campion, Candace has published the historical novels The King's Mistress (Broadway Books, 2011) and A Triple Knot (Broadway Books, 2014). Candace lives in Seattle with her husband.