It is nigh on forty years since the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and the Cornish are again growing restive to shed the Tudor yoke once and for all. What will be needed, though, is a new leader, and who better to fill this role than a Plantagenet Pretender to the throne, Customer Trago. Customer, however, is a committed coward and wants nothing more than to be acknowledged at the Court of Henry VIII as a minor royal. The role of hero is nevertheless thrust upon Customer, but not by accident, when he rides back into Cornwall to the deeply troubled Augustinian Priory in Launceston to see his ailing...

Twenty-seven-year-old Natalie Miller is struggling to come to terms with the death of her stepmother, Ellen, whom the police believe, but cannot prove, Natalie murdered. Natalie doesn't deny that she murdered Ellen: there are terrifying blanks in her memory, things she should remember but can't following Ellen's highly suspicious death eighteen months ago. And then, in the space of one short week, Natalie's life becomes even more of a nightmare. Not just for her, either, but for a disparate group of people whose paths cross hers, three of whom ultimately pay the price for it with their lives....

Young women are being murdered, the only clue to the identity of their killer, a Tarot card left with their bodies. That is, according to Professor Rupert Roxeth, the recognised authority on the Tarot called in by the Gidding police to assist them in their enquiries into the murders. The clairvoyant, Edwina Charles, when approached privately by ex-Detective Chief Superintendent David Sayer, acting on behalf of friends of his, who have a vested interest in knowing the identity of the Tarot murderer, has other ideas. Her reading of the cards left by the Tarot murderer tells an entirely...