The Anger of God

by Paul Doherty Book 4 in the Brother Athelstan Mysteries series.

First published 1993

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Autumn 1379. England is governed in the young Richard II’s name by John of Gaunt, while French attacks, heavy taxation and growing peasant unrest place the kingdom under severe strain. A mysterious rebel organiser calling himself Ira Dei—the Anger of God—is helping turn political resentment into an organised threat.

Gaunt’s attempt to secure the support of London’s wealthy merchants is disrupted by a sequence of murders and the disappearance of a large quantity of gold. Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan are ordered to investigate, but the capital is crowded with factions preparing for conflict. Their search for the killer draws them into the same tensions that will soon erupt in the Peasants’ Revolt, where political conspiracy and ordinary grievance are increasingly difficult to separate.