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October 2013
On Sale: October 7, 2013
Featuring: King Cnut; Winston; Halfdan
272 pages
ISBN: 1477807268
EAN: 9781477807262
Kindle: B00BCPEWQU
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Mystery Historical
The first in the bestselling Danish series of historical
mysteries
The newly crowned King Cnut of Denmark
has conquered England and rules his new empire from Oxford.
The year is 1018 and the war is finally over, but the
unified kingdom is far from peaceful.
Halfdan’s
mixed lineage—half Danish, half Saxon—has made him a pauper
in the new kingdom. His father, his brother, and the land he
should have inherited were all taken by the new king’s men.
He lost everything to the war but his sense of humor. Once a
proud nobleman, Halfdan now wanders the country aimlessly,
powered only by his considerable charm and some petty theft.
When he finds an unlikely ally in Winston, a former monk, he
sees no reason not to accept his strange invitation to
travel together to Oxford. Winston has been commissioned to
paint a portrait of the king at the invitation of his new
wife, and the protection of a clever man like Halfdan is
well worth its price in wine and bread.
But when
the pair’s arrival in court coincides with news of a murder,
the king has a brilliant idea: Why not enlist the newly
arrived womanizing half-Dane and the Saxon intellectual to
defuse a politically explosive situation? The pair
represents both sides of the conflict and seem to have
crime-solving skills to boot. In their search for the
killer, Halfdan and Winston find seduction, adventure, and
scandal in the wild early days of Cnut’s rule.
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