The Assassin in the Greenwood

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P. C. Doherty's series featuring Hugh Corbett, chief clerk and spy for Edward I in the fourteenth century, has established a loyal audience of history and mystery lovers. In The Assassin in the Greenwood, the seventh mystery in the series, Hugh Corbett's agents for Edward I wage a secret, bloody war in the filthy streets of Paris against Philip IV of France, desperately trying to stave off an impending invasion. Edward also has other problems: A few years previously he issued a pardon to the famous criminal Robin of Locksley, popularly known as a latter-day, would-be Robin Hood. But Robin has returned to battle royal authority, and the result is a barbarous massacre of tax collectors and the mysterious murder of a sheriff of Nottingham. Edward I again calls on his trusted clerk, Hugh Corbett, to hunt down the killer, but it soon becomes clear that an assassin is also hunting Corbett.