This book covered some pretty ugly topics; the rape and murder of young boys, anti-Semitism, and abhorance toward and criminalization of homosexuals. Really, *not* the kind of book that I would typically read--these topics all run very much against my personality--a personality that tends to prefer...
A good mystery set in a period that is not often covered in either factual histories or historical fiction: the reign of Richard II, at the very onset of the War of the Roses.The treatment of both homosexuals and Jews in the England of the time is an interesting sidebar.