Cruel as the Grave

April 1193.

England''s King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard''s younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal "queen''s man," Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible - mediate a truce with her rebel son.

Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler''s daughter seems sma...