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A Trail of Ink

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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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Grave Goods

Ariana Franklin · 336 pages

Combining the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of medieval fiction, New York Timesbestselling author Ariana Franklin returns with the third title in the Mistress of the Art of Death series.England, 1176. Beautiful, tranquil Glastonbury Abbey one of Englands holiest sites, and believed by some to be King Arthurs sacred Isle of Avalonhas been burned almost to the ground. The arsonist

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An Unwilling Accomplice

Charles Todd · 440 pages

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Morality Play

Barry Unsworth · 206 pages

It is a cold winter in the fourteenth century, and a young renegade priest, Nicholas Barber, joins an acting troupe who prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the tradition of only performing religious plays, the group's charismatic leader, Martin, wants them to enact the brutal murder that has torn apart the rural village of which they have wandered. A young boy has been found dead, a

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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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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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A Vigil of Spies

Candace Robb · 360 pages

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Semper Fidelis

Ruth Downie · 330 pages

Resuming his medical duties in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Gaius Petreius Ruso investigates an outbreak of mysterious injuries and deaths and discovers possible links to the revered Centurion Geminus and the long-awaited Emperor Hadrian.

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A Man's Word

Martin Jensen · 278 pages

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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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The Crediton Killings

Michael Jecks · 320 pages

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Murder Wears a Cowl

Paul Doherty · 256 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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Murder on Waverly Place

Victoria Thompson

Victoria Thompson once again “vividly recreates the gaslit world of New York.”(Publishers Weekly)Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a seance. She knows that Mrs. Decker still carries great guilt over the death of her older daughter, Maggie. So Sarah accompanies her and the spiritualist does seem to contact Maggie—convincing Mrs. Decker to attend

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The Midwife's Tale

Sam Thomas · 317 pages

It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the king and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebel's hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion.

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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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The Good Knight

Sarah Woodbury · 347 pages

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A Dreadful Penance

Jason Vail · 206 pages

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The Prince of Darkness

P.C. Doherty · 256 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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The American Boy

Andrew Taylor

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Breaker of Bones

David Penny · 282 pages

"March 1483, and Spain is preparing for yet more war. Surgeon Thomas Berrington makes a reluctant journey to Qurtuba at the request of his master. He expects only to operate on a Spanish prince and return home to Moorish al-Andalus. But fate has something else in store for him and his companion, the eunuch Jorge. A warped killer has been murdering young women and creating twisted creatures from th

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A Plague on Both Your Houses

Susanna Gregory · 406 pages

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