The Great Revolt: A Mystery Set in Medieval London, Doherty Paul

June, 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London, determined to overturn both Crown and Church. The Regent, John of Gaunt, has headed north, leaving his nephew, the boy-king Richard II, unprotected.

Brother Athelstan meanwhile has been summoned to the monastery at Blackfriars, tasked with solving the murder of his fellow priest, Brother Alberic, found stabbed to death in his locked chamber. Athelstan would rather be protecting his parishioners at St Erconwalds. Instead, he finds himself investigating a royal murder that took place fifty-four years earlier whilst the rebel leaders plot the present kings destruction.