The bloody brand

Krvavý cejch (The Bloody Brand) audiobook, written by Jan Bauer, narrated by Petr Štěpán, directed by Ondřej Černý.

Bailiff Jakub Protiva and Monk Blasius #6

A wealthy Venetian merchant is murdered at the U Zlaté husy (The Golden Goose) inn on the Horse Market. On the victim's body, bailiff Jakub Protiva discovers a strange bloody brand, which clearly has some significance. The search for the perpetrator or perpetrators of this murder leads the New Town bailiff and his friend Blasius far beyond the Prague walls to a castle above the Sázava River. Strange things start happening there from the moment they arrive. How do they relate to the dead Venetian? And who are the mysterious riders who appear in the surrounding forests at night? According to the castle chaplain and Blasius's former classmate, a family curse on the castle owners is to blame, whose ancestor once took part in a crusade to the Holy Land. Is this just a legend, or does it have a kernel of truth?