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A Midwinter Murder
by Peter Tonkin
Book 3 in the Tom Musgrave Series series.
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Christmas 1594. Tom Musgrave leaves rehearsals for A Midsummer Night’s Dream after learning that his brother John has been found dead in the branches of an ancient oak, frozen with terror. Rumour blames the Barguest, a monstrous hound associated with the northern borders, and Tom has encountered enough of the legend to know that fear itself can be made lethal.
Riding north, he discovers that superstition is protecting a political conspiracy among families accustomed to feud, raid and divided allegiance. His skill with logic and the Italian sword is less useful in country where local memory outranks London law. The mystery combines a family death with the manipulation of border folklore by men who benefit from keeping witnesses afraid.
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