London, December 1377. A severe frost has frozen the Thames when Sir Ralph Whitton, Constable of the Tower of London, is found murdered inside a locked chamber. Trusted retainers guarded the door, yet there is no obvious route by which the killer could have entered or escaped.
Brother Athelstan and coroner Sir John Cranston are ordered to investigate inside one of the most secure royal fortresses in England. The apparent impossibility of the crime forces them to examine Whitton’s household, his official duties and the enemies created by his position. With Richard II still a child and political tension rising around the court, a murder in the Tower cannot be treated as a private matter, and the solution depends on uncovering both an old grievance and a carefully constructed deception.
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