The Poisoned Cup

King Henry II is dead. All Europe thinks he died of a lingering sickness, but Robert Attebrook, who has risen from his birth as a carpenter’s son to become one of the king’s trusted household knights, discovers the monarch was poisoned — the fatal potion concealed in the stem of a specially crafted cup, slipped to him by someone he trusted.This secret murder plunges the Attebrook family — Robert and his indominable wife Giselle — back into conflict with their fearsome enemy, the ruthless Earl Eustace FitzWalter. FitzWalter has schemed for years to recover his earldom, confiscated by King Henry for treason. FitzWalter blames the Attebrooks for his loss, and has nurtured hopes of revenge. With King Richard, FitzWalter’s close friend, now on the throne, he takes back what he lost and more, and sets into motion his plan to destroy the Attebrooks for good.Follow the struggles of the Attebrooks across the face of old England and its forbidding forests inhabited by desperate outlaws and into the depths of France and Germany, where kings clash in the game of power and death stalks King Richard.Open The Poisoned Cup, and slip back into the tumultuous years of the Twelfth Century — and partake of the continuing saga of the founding of the great Attebrook family, the ancestors of Stephen Attebrook of Ludlow, the celebrated medieval detective.


Genre: Historical