The Merchant's Mark Farshore and with the best kick-ass

and with the best kick-ass feminist female characters ever

Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover America

Billy Barber - a violent football hooligan and white supremacist who knows Rook from old - is accused of her murder

Death stalks the beaches of Devon

and which leads to an astonishing but thoroughly satisfying climax

The Merchant's Mark Farshore and with the best kick-assGil Cunningham and old acquaintance, Glasgow merchant Augie Morison, report the gruesome find of a severed head instead of an expected delivery of books. At the inquest Morison is accused of murder and imprisoned. He appeals to Gil, who sets out to identify the dead man and establish the provenance of the treasure that lay beside him. The trail leads from the court of James IV at Stirling via a cooper's yard in Linlithgow, to another murder on the