River of Sins

by Sarah Hawkswood Book 7 in the Bradecote & Catchpoll series.

First published 2020

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July 1144. Ricolde, a well-known sex worker in Worcester, is found butchered on an island in the River Severn several miles upstream. The isolated location makes the route to the crime scene as important as the violence itself. Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin trace boats, river settlements and the people who knew the victim under different circumstances.

Ricolde’s history reveals exploitation, survival and events concealed for more than two decades. Witnesses contradict one another, and the evidence challenges Catchpoll’s confidence that he knows every corner of Worcester’s lower world. As the case becomes personal, the investigators must recover the identity of a woman whose public reputation has hidden both her suffering and the motive for her death.