The Red Hand

Returning to England after foiling a plot to destroy Jerusalem, Guy of Gisburne is arrested and hauled to the Tower of London; John, England's regent in the absence of its monstrous King, needs his knight once more. A killer has broken into the Prince's most secure castle in the north and left a message, drawn on the skin of one of his victims: dies irae venit—'Judgement Day is coming'—signed with a bloody handprint. Is the threat genuine? Who, or what, is the Red Hand? Someone is killing John's most loyal supporters, and the obvious culprit—the most dangerous man in the Kingdom, Hood himself—has an alibi even Guy can't deny.