The King's Justice
novel 1985 Chronicles of the Deryni
Record
| First published | 1985 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 4.14 (3,392 ratings, collected 2026-11-06) |
| Page count | 337 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345318251 |
Synopsis
The second of the Histories of King Kelson novels (Ballantine hardcover, 1985) covers a military campaign in mid-1124. King Kelson Haldane leads a Gwyneddan army against the Mearan Pretender Caitrin Quinnell and her ally Edmund Loris, a former archbishop who hates the Deryni. Kelson's forces capture and execute Prince Ithel and kill Sicard MacArdry, then rescue Bishop Duncan McLain from Loris's torture and execution. Kelson takes the rebel city of Laas, has Loris executed, and secures his authority over Meara, though he also orders the execution of Prince Judhael. The campaign takes place in the kingdom of Gwynedd, and the rebel strongholds Kelson overruns include Laas.
Where it sits
- Universe: Chronicles of the Deryni
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Katherine Kurtz
Notes
- Part of the Histories of King Kelson trilogy; no matching series record in the data.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Chronicles of the Deryni (standalone work): position 8 of 16: previous The Bishop's Heir (1984) · next The Quest for Saint Camber (1986)
Sources
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