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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press Published by Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
John Gower novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1385 London, poet John Gower is asked by Geoffrey Chaucer to find an ancient manuscript that prophesies the end of England's kings, which draws him into a conspiracy that reaches from the king's court to London's slums and potentially implicates his own son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1399, London. The prioress at St. Frideswide wants to hire Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, to investigate murders at the priory. Two of Prioress Drueta's nuns have been killed in a way that signifies two of the Seven Deadly Sins, and she's at her wits end. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing when the exiled Henry Bolingbroke returns to England's shores.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Father Bulthius Braydon begs Crispin Guest for help when corpses are seen stalking St Modwen Church's graveyard, while Crispin's seven-year-old son is accused of murder. As Crispin investigates, it seems that St Modwen's links both cases, and he is soon in a desperate race against time to solve the strange goings-on and prove his son's innocence." -- Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Once a Knight of the Realm, Crispin Guest was stripped of his title and his lands and must now earn his meager living through his wits. With the help of his young apprentice, reformed thief Jack Tucker, Guest is known to certain populations as The Tracker, the man who can find anything--for a price. It is for that reason that Guest is sought out by Nicholas Flamel, an absent-minded alchemist. Both Flamel's wife and his apprentice are missing, and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1405: The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Anneke Sheldrake suddenly finds her family bankrupted when her father���s ship is swept away at sea. Forced to find a way to provide for herself and her siblings, Anneke rejects an offer of marriage from a despised cousin and instead turns to her late mother���s family business: brewing ale. Armed with her mother���s recipes, she then makes a bold deal with her father���s aristocratic...
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"January, 1400. The bowman strikes at night, slaying one of King Henry's loyal garrison men before melting back into the darkness. Was the murder the result of a personal quarrel? Or is it, as Henry's stepbrother, Swynford, fears, the start of an uprising against England's self-crowned king? Swynford orders Brother Chandler to investigate, before the spark of rebellion can set the whole country alight. Friar, reluctant sleuth, and even more reluctant...
Author
Series
John Gower novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Though he is one of England's most acclaimed intellectuals, John Gower is no stranger to London's wretched slums and dark corners, and he knows how to trade on the secrets of the kingdom's most powerful men. When the bodies of sixteen unknown men are found in a privy, the Sheriff of London seeks Gower's help. The men's wounds--ragged holes created by an unknown object--are unlike anything the sheriff's men have ever seen. Tossed into the sewer, the...
10) The hanging tree
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Series
Sorrowful mysteries of Brother Athelstan volume 21
Sorrowful mysteries of Brother Athelston volume 21
Sorrowful mysteries of Brother Athelston volume 21
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
London. January, 1382. The Crown's treasury has been robbed. Tens of thousands of silver and gold coin mysteriously lifted from the most secure chamber in the kingdom; the five Clerks of the Dark who guarded the king's treasure brutally garrotted. Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan are appointed to investigate - but Athelstan has problems of his own. Clement the Key Master, who helped fashion the complex locks to the royal treasure chamber, has...
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