The diversity and development of early English law is sampled here with a selection of several law-codes in translation; the laws of Ethelbert of Kent, the first code to be issued in England, the laws of Alfred the Great, and short codes from the reigns of Edmund and Ethelred the Unready.

Gavin Pierce, a homicide detective with the Nassau County Police Department on Long Island, is in hot pursuit of a serial killer. As Pierce's hunt for the unconventional maniac progresses, there is no shortage of clues, evidence...or victims. All of which point to a predator whose expertise is matched only by an unnerving ability to escape capture. With this exciting and spiritual thriller in the vein of Frank Peretti, W.G. Griffiths offers up a chilling tale of one man's desperate fight against an evil that is darker and more violent than any he has encountered before. And when the final...