A Dish of Spurs

Name: A Dish of Spurs
Rating: 4.28 (913 reviews)

by Robert Low Book 1 in the Border Reivers series.

First published 2020

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In 1542, fifteen-year-old Mintie Henderson sees her father murdered in the Debatable Lands between England and Scotland. With James V dead, the infant Mary on the Scottish throne and armed reivers exploiting the uncertainty, Mintie finds an unlikely ally in Batty Coalhouse, a one-armed fighter who understands the Border’s violence better than its laws.

Their pursuit of the killers becomes part of a wider struggle involving Henry VIII, rival Border families and soldiers preparing for war. Mintie and Batty must decide whom to trust while revenge draws them across a landscape where political authority is distant and survival depends on acting before an enemy does.