A Maiden Weeping

Jeri Westerson’s “A Maiden Weeping” is included in the Crispin Guest Medieval Noir collection. Following a night of love, Crispin Guest, also known as “The Tracker,” wakes up in an unfamiliar bed to find a slain woman. Unconscious and inebriated, he questions whether he is the murderer. As more young ladies suffer similar outcomes,

Crispin learns that a lethal stalker is at large in London. The Tears of the Virgin Mary, a relic under the close-lipped widow’s protection, are the center of the mystery. Jack Tucker, Crispin’s teenage apprentice, steps in as the “Tracker” after Crispin is restrained and imprisoned to solve the crime and save Crispin from being executed for murder.