The Ramage Hawk

In the third installment of John Pilkington's Thomas the Falconer Tudor mystery series, titled A Lure to Murder, falconer Thomas Finbow arrives at the estate of Sir Giles Buckeridge on Salisbury Plain to train a wild hawk and instruct Sir Giles's ward, Gervase, in falconry. However, as Sir Giles struggles to secure futures for his three daughters, the disappearance of his eldest, Jane, turns the quest for a missing girl into a deadly search for a murderer. With an escalating body count, Thomas must rely on his instincts and skills to uncover the truth amid the treachery and turmoil of Elizabethan life.