The Winter King

By: Alys Clare

all saint’s eve, 1211. an overweight but wealthy nobleman, desperate for an heir, dies at the celebration feast he’s thrown in his own hall. a natural death . . . or at the hands of his reluctant new wife?sabin de gifford, an apothecary and healer of note, is called to examine the body, and concludes that he died of a spasm to the heart. but she is troubled, all the same, and beset by suspicions....