Saint's Blood

How do you kill a saint?

Well, someone's worked it out, and now Falcio, Kest and Brasti have to do the same, because they've started with a friend: the saint of mercy.

The Dukes were already looking for a way out of their agreement to put Aline on the throne, but with Saints turning up dead all over the place, rumours are spreading across Tristia that it's the Gods themselves who oppose King Paelis' daughter.

Now churches are looking to protect themselves by turning the country into a theocracy and bringing back their own military order of religious soldiers, assassins and - especially - the Inquisitors, who have their own particular (and much harsher) view of justice.

The only way our three Greatcoats can stop them is buy finding the murderer - but they have only one clue: the terrifying iron mask wrapped around the dying Saint of Mercy's head.

And even if they do find the killer, Falcio is still going to have to kill him . . . and that may be a duel that no swordsman, no matter how skilled, can ever hope to win.