'A cracking good read that is recommended for all collections' - Booklist Starred Review
A traveller's gory tale strikes a little too close to home for Lassair . . .
Apprentice healer Lassair isn't too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grisly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman's home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her...