A Head for Murder

London 1594.

 

Tom Musgrave rescues a beautiful girl from under the feet of a mob playing football on London Bridge.

 

But her breathless thanks are drowned by horrified screams.

 

The football has vanished.

 

In its place, a severed head is rolling down into Southwark, into the jurisdiction of Tom's old friend, the Bishop's Bailiff Talbot Law.

 

And Talbot must now investigate the crime.

 

The skull has fallen from the Great Stone Gateway, where the heads of recently executed traitors are displayed. But the decapitated victim was no traitor and her head, like her sex, is markedly different from the others up there.

 

Tom and Talbot begin their investigation with a search down-river. All too swiftly they discover a woman's headless body....But this body does not match the head.

 

A killer is at work.

 

And no one knows where they will strike next.