The Hermes Parchment

Where goes the King’s Investigator, there goes death; by murder, usually. Despite his protestations that disaster is inevitable, Brother Hermitage travels to Lincoln to sort out a library. It’s the task of his dreams, even if he’s reasonably confident that someone will get murdered in the process. But a library should be safe enough; apart from the librarian obsessed with books on sorcery and magic, obviously. Delving in the bottom of a box of books delivered from a long-lost monastery, Hermitage discovers the great Hermes Parchment and the whole world goes mad.

Hermitage, Wat and Cwen become embroiled in events that were pretty embroiled to begin with. There are wise men of the woods who turn out to be no such thing. There are suggestions of an evil secret hidden in the parchment’s pages just waiting to be released.

And a dead body turns up. Just as Hermitage said it would. Told you so.