The Merchant's Mark Farshore Death stalks the beaches of

Death stalks the beaches of Devon

What he finds there will change his life forever

Will she never speak again

Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover America

and with the best kick-ass feminist female characters ever

The Merchant's Mark Farshore Death stalks the beaches ofGil 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