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But when he comes to inform his client, he is found dead - murdered in a sealed room, locked from the inside. Now Guest has come to the unwanted attention of the Lord Sheriff of London and most recent client was murdered while he was working for him. And everything seems to turn on a religious relic - a veil reported to have wiped the brow of Christ - that is now missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA great read, through and through. Westerson's finely wrought portrait of gritty Medieval London is embued with great wit and poignancy. Crispin Guest is a knight to remember. -- Cornelia Read, author of A Field of Darkness, on Veil of Lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrispin Guest is a disgraced knight, stripped of his rank and his honor - but left with his life - for plotting against Richard I. Having lost his bethrothed, his friends, his patrons and his position in society. 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