A review by anitaw16
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Eric Jager

3.0

The book was fascinating and informative but, as other readers have pointed out, the subtitle is misleading; the killer is revealed in the first half of the book and the methods used to discover his identity are not exactly groundbreaking. The second half of the book deals with the violent unrest (including war with England) resulting from the murder. The author does an excellent job of illustrating the commonplace barbarity, both sanctioned and unsanctioned, of this time period.