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The Crediton Killings

Michael Jecks · 320 pages

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The Mark of a Murderer

Susanna Gregory · 480 pages

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Murder Most Holy

Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages

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The Guilt of Innocents

Candace Robb · 352 pages

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The Unquiet Bones

Melvin R. Starr · 254 pages

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, he feels no real calling—despite his lively faith—and he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris, and then hanging his sign in Oxford. Soon after, a local lord asks Hugh de Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the

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The Demon's Parchment

Jeri Westerson · 320 pages

Former knight and nobleman Crispin Guest, now surviving as a detective in 14th century London, agrees to track down stolen parchments possibly connected with a series of brutal murders for a Jewish physician attending the Queen.

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The Servant's Tale

Margaret Frazer · 234 pages

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One Corpse Too Many

Ellis Peters · 208 pages

The year is 1138. King Stephen and his cousin the Empress Maud are caught in a bitter struggle for the British crown. When Stephen finally captures the castle of Shrewsbury, one of Maud's few remaining hold-outs, his victory is a bloody one. Ninety-four prisoners, the surviving defenders of the Empress's castle, are taken. And ninety-four are hanged. Brother Cadfael of the nearby Abbey of St.

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Dragon's Lair

Sharon Kay Penman · 352 pages

July 1193. King Richard Lionheart lies in a German prison, held for ransom by the emperor. His mother, Dowager Queen Eleanor, ransacks England for gold to buy his freedom, while his younger brother, John, plots with King Philippe of France to ensure that he rots and dies in chains. When a ransom payment vanishes, Eleanor hastily dispatches young Justin de Quincy to investigate. In wild, beautif

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Wine of Violence

Priscilla Royal · 248 pages

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Season of the Raven

Denise Domning · 285 pages

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The Hangman's Daughter

Oliver Potzsch · 435 pages

Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is fo

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Saint Milburga's Bones

Jason Vail · 229 pages

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Mistress of the Art of Death

Ariana Franklin · 408 pages

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition."In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed

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The Witch Hunter

Bernard Knight · 370 pages

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The Alehouse Murders

Maureen Ash · 288 pages

A Templar treasure for mystery readers!An honorable-yet world-weary-Knight Templar solves the mysteries of Medieval England.After eight years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on a sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning faith-but not even the peace of God's countryside is safe from the mo

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The Wolves of Savernake

Edward Marston · 243 pages

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Treachery

S.J. Parris · 540 pages

Summer, 1585: As English ships are held captive in Spain, fear mounts of an Invincible Armada, built by King Philip II, and intended to invade English shores. Sir Francis Drake prepares to embark on an expedition by royal commission to cross the Atlantic and seize major Spanish ports, diverting Philip's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno, radical philosopher and spy, acc

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In Milady's Chamber

Sheri Cobb South

Lord fieldhurst was murdered in his wife's bed chamber and his dead body was discovered by his wife. John Pickett, the bow-street runner was called to solve the case. Will John be able to solve the crime and save Lady Fieldhurst from gallows!

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The Prince of Darkness

P.C. Doherty · 256 pages

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An Old Betrayal

Charles Finch · 338 pages

Drawn back into his old profession, Charles Lenox, a Member of Parliament, investigates the murder of an innocuous country squire and discovers that this body is only the first step in a deadly plan to destroy England's monarchy. "In the seventh book of Finch's bestselling series of Victorian mysteries, a case of mistaken identity has Charles Lenox playing for his highest stakes yet: the safety o

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SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius

John Maddox Roberts · 211 pages

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Murder in the Place of Anubis

Lynda S. Robinson · 218 pages

Tutankhamen calls upon his trusted chief investigator, Lord Merren, to search out a killer who has desecrated the sacred Place of Anubis.

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