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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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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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The Queen's Man

Sharon Kay Penman · 291 pages

The 12th Century sleuth, Justin de Quincy, investigates a murder which could shed light on a plot to usurp the crown of England. Prince John is scheming to unseat his brother, King Richard the Lionheart, who went missing as he was returning from a crusade.

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The Traitor's Tale

Margaret Frazer · 372 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 Lord of Ireland

E.M. Powell · 368 pages

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The Traitor of St Giles

Michael Jecks · 352 pages

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The King's Bishop

Candace Robb · 384 pages

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Fortune Like the Moon

Alys Clare · 272 pages

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The Agincourt Bride

Joanna Hickson · 592 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 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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Wine of Violence

Priscilla Royal · 248 pages

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The Good Knight

Sarah Woodbury · 347 pages

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The Red Hill

David Penny · 393 pages

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A Mortal Bane

Roberta Gellis · 352 pages

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Seraphina

Rachel Hartman · 465 pages

In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.

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The Ashes of London

Andrew Taylor · 496 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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Season of the Raven

Denise Domning · 285 pages

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Palace of Spies

Sarah Zettel · 367 pages

In 1716 London, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl from a good family impersonates a lady-in-waiting only to discover that the real girl was murdered, the court harbors a nest of spies, and the handsome young artist who is helping her solve the mystery might be a spy himself.

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The Wolves of Savernake

Edward Marston · 243 pages

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