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Following her Abbess of Meaux murder mystery stories, Cassandra Clark is now writing another medieval series, The Broken Kingdom Trilogy , featuring Brother Chandler. The Day of the Serpent is the second novel.
Set in 1400, as Henry IV takes the throne from Richard II, the story starts with the murder of Richard and the journey of the royal cortege from Pontefract to London. During this and later a number of Henry’s men-at-arms are picked off by an unknown bowman (or bowmen). This may be the result of a quarrel, but Henry’s stepbrother, Sir Thomas Swynford, is concerned that it could be the start of a rising against the usurper. He summons Rodric Chandler, a friar in the order of St Serapion, and orders him to fin