The Hangman's Hymn (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 5): A disturbing and compulsive tale from medieval England by Paul Doherty
Stumbling upon an execution, Chaucer's pilgrims witness a hanging that leaves the carpenter in a dead faint. That evening, he narrates the tale of a Gloucester hangman whose involvement in the secretive punishment of three witches unleashes a vicious spate of revenge killings.