Bermondsey Priory 1114.
A young chaplain succumbs to the temptations of the flesh – and suffers a gruesome fate.
From that moment, the monastery is cursed and over the next five hundred years, murder and treachery abound within its hallowed walls. A beautiful young bride found dead two days before her wedding. A ghostly figure that warns of impending doom. A daring plot to depose King Edward II. Mad monks and errant priests … even the poet Chaucer finds himself drawn into the dark deeds and violent death that pervade this unhappy place.
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Prologue: In which Bernard Knight lays the foundation for the ghoulish tales that follow.
Act One: In which Bernard Knight tells how Crowner John arrives at the priory of Bermondsey to investigate murder most foul.
Act Two: In which Ian Morson’s William Falconer uncovers dark deeds during an eclipse of the Moon.
Act Three: In which Michael Jecks’ Keeper Sir Baldwin and Bailiff Puttock foil a treasonous plot.
Act Four: In which Philip Gooden relates how poet Chaucer becomes embroiled in the priory’s dark history.
Act Five: In which Susanna Gregory’s Thomas Chaloner, spy for the Lord Chancellor of England, avenges a violent death.
Epilogue: In which Bernard Knight exposes the final secret.
