The Gallows Curse
Karen Maitland
Works of: Fiction
The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin.
In the village of Gastmere, this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena. Unwittingly drawn into a macabre scheme to absolve dying Lord Gerard of his crimes, death and betrayal haunt her dreams like a curse.
And when Elena is threatened with hanging for a murder she did not commit, it is certain that unnatural conspiracy lies behind these dark deeds. But where can she turn? For in every face lies wickedness and in every shadow lurks treachery . . .
Other Awards
Winner of the Prix du Balai d’or in Paris for the novel Malediction du Norfolk. The French translation of The Gallows Curse published by Sonatine.
Sub-genres
Other books by Karen Maitland
Rivers of Treason
Traitor in the Ice
The Drowned City
Company of Liars
A Gathering of Ghosts
The Plague Charmer
The Raven’s Head
The Vanishing Witch
Falcons of fire and ice
The Owl Killers
The Vanishing Witch
Liars and Thieves
The Dangerous Arts of Alchemy
Wicked Children
The Sacred Stone (Medieval Murderers)
Hill of Bones (Medieval Murderers)
The First Murder (Medieval Murderers)
The False Virgin (Medieval Murderers)
The Deadliest Sin (Medieval Murderers)
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