Brother Nothing: A Novel

Paris, 1369. The plague has returned. Philippe Gautier flees the capital with his young daughter to return to the town of his birth. There, among the woad fields of Picardy, he hopes to keep Nicole safe and settle into a quiet post as the town’s royal provost, or dispenser of justice.

But pestilence is not the only danger. The wife of one of the town’s wealthiest merchants has been found murdered, strung up in the dyers’ quarter dressed as an angel.

Philippe is tasked with bringing her killer...