The Daughters of Cain Patrick Mercer An unnamed defendant stands accused

An unnamed defendant stands accused of murder

Sigurd finds himself a prisoner of the powerful Jarl Guthrum

And then he finds the corpse of a child beside an ancient river

and helped by Kaz's bi-curious lover

and it ends on a note of guarded optimism

The Daughters of Cain Patrick Mercer An unnamed defendant stands accusedBizarre and bewildering thats what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to Morses soul. Chief Superintendent Stranges opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound