The Ramage Hawk

A LURE TO MURDER Thomas Finbow falconer to Sir Robert Vicary is sent to the remote Salisbury Plain by his master to assist on the estate of the impoverished Sir Giles Buckeridge. Thomas is to train a ramage hawk - an immature half-wild bird - and to teach the arts of falconry to Sir Giles’s young ward Gervase. It soon becomes clear however that Sir Giles has much bigger problems than falconry as he is struggling to secure respectable futures - and provide sufficient dowries - for his three spirited daughters. Within days of Thomas's arrival Sir Giles's eldest daughter Jane vanishes - assumed to have run away from her unhappy betrothal to a wealthy older man Stephen Ridley. But the search for a missing girl soon turns into a hunt for a murderer and as the body count rises Thomas has no choice but to do what he does best - hunt his prey…