Chester, 1400. Riding for his life, with a copy of Chaucer’s heretical Canterbury Tales in his possession, friar-sleuth Brother Chandler is ambushed on the road and wakes up in a stranger’s house. Is his ‘rescuer’, wool merchant John Willoughby, friend… or foe? Willoughby declares that he, like Chandler, has renounced the self-crowned King Henry IV […]

