The King's Hounds

The first in the bestselling Danish series of historical mysteries. The newly crowned King Cnut of Denmark has conquered England and rules his new empire from Oxford. The year is 1018 and the war is finally over, but t he unified kingdom is far from peaceful. Halfdan's mixed lineagehalf Danish, half Saxonhas made him a pauper i n the new kingdom. His father, his brother, and the land he should have inh erited were all taken by the new king's men. He lost everything to the war but his sense of humor. Once a proud nobleman, Halfdan now wanders the coun try aimlessly, powered only by his considerable charm and some petty theft. When he finds an unlikely ally in Winston, a former monk, he sees no reaso n not to accept his strange invitation to travel together to Oxford. Winsto n has been commissioned to paint a portrait of the king at the invitation o f his new wife, and the protection of a clever man like Halfdan is well wor th its price in wine and bread. But when the pair's arrival in court coincides with news of a murder, the king has a brilliant idea: Why not enlist the newly arrived womanizing half-Dane and the Saxon intellectual to defuse a politically explosive situation The pair represents both sides of the conflict and seem to have crime-solving skills to boot. In their search for the killer, Halfdan and Winston find seduction, adventure, and scandal in the wild early days of Cnut's rule.

Product Info

ISBN: 1477807268

ISBN-13: 9781477807262

Publisher: Amazon Crossing

Year: 2013

Type: New

Binding: Softcover

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