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The Assassin in the Greenwood

Paul Doherty · 362 pages

It is 1302 and Corbett and his two servants are sent to Nottingham to investigate the return of Robin to Sherwood Forest. They are perplexed on their arrival to find fresh mysteries. Corbett's peace of mind is further shattered by news that the French have despatched an agent to assassinate him.

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Prince of Darkness

Sharon Kay Penman

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The Traitor of St Giles

Michael Jecks · 352 pages

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The Traitor's Tale

Margaret Frazer · 372 pages

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Thirteenth Night

Alan Gordon · 256 pages

A historical mystery set in the thirteenth century in the mythical Duchy of Orsino on the Adriatic Coast (ie Dalmatia, part of the former Yugoslavia) and featuring characters of Shakespeare's play TWELFTH NIGHT. Twelve years after the events of the play, the Duke of Orsino has been murdered and the duchy is in a state of political turmoil. Feste (the fool), believing he sees the hand of Malvolio i

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Death Comes As Epiphany

Sharan Newman · 320 pages

Catherine LeVendeur, the most promising student in Heloise's convent, Paraclete, has the responsibility of discovering who has altered the text of a psalter given the the Abbot of Suger during the 12th century.

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The Lord of Ireland

E.M. Powell · 368 pages

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The Canterbury Papers

Judith Koll Healey · 368 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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Veil of Lies

Jeri Westerson · 280 pages

In the late 14th Century, disgraced former knight Crispin Guest finds himself in the midst of a situation involving a murdered tradesman, a missing religious artifact, a family dispute and a perplexing mystery.

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A Trail of Ink

Melvin R. Starr

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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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A Dreadful Penance

Jason Vail · 206 pages

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An Excellent Mystery

Ellis Peters · 233 pages

Shrewsbury hosts two refugee brothers with a history that could bedevil the Benedictines, but gives Cadfael something to do.

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The Prince of Darkness

P.C. Doherty · 256 pages

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The Good Knight

Sarah Woodbury · 347 pages

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Plague Land

S.D. Sykes · 336 pages

"Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Dispatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by the plague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviving peasants. Yet some t

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Oathbreaker

Martin Jensen · 247 pages

Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are guests in a monastery when they're awakened in the middle of the night and asked to solve a crime. A monk praying in the church has been brutally murdered, and his severed hand offers the first clue of a motive. As they investigate who could have committed such a heinous atrocity, and why, Halfdan and Winston must negotiate bitter rivalries with

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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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Absolution by Murder

Peter Tremayne · 274 pages

Sister Fidelma Mystery series #1 In A.D. 664, King Oswy of Northumbria has convened a synod at Whitby to hear debate between the Roman and Celtic Christian churches and decide which shall be granted primacy in his kingdom. At stake is much more than a few disputed points of ritual; Oswy's decision could affect the survival of either church in the Saxon kingdoms. When the Abbess Etain, a lead

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The Dragon King's Palace

Laura Joh Rowland · 362 pages

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Iacobus

Matilde Asensi · 348 pages

Galcerán de Born es un caballero de la orden de los hospitalarios, enemigos mortales de los templarios. La fama del monje guerrero acerca de su gran capacidad para resolver enigmas llega a oídos del Papa Juan XXII quien decide encargarle una misión: descubrir a los culpables de las muertes del Papa Clemente, del rey Felipe y de Guillermo de Nogaret. Con la ayuda de Jonás, su hijo, aunque éste a

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