Jeri Westerson
Blood Lance
Editors' choice
Late one night in 1386, Crispin Guest is walking along London Bridge when he encounters a man falling from the…
Troubled Bones
In 1385, disgraced knight Crispin Guest, known as the Tracker, an investigator of crimes, travels to Canterbury at the request…
The Demon’s Parchment
London, 1384. Crispin Guest, aka “The Tracker,” returns in the third of Jeri Westerson’s medieval noir mysteries. The story opens…
Serpent in the Thorns: A Medieval Noir
This is the second entry in a series featuring medieval private detective Crispin Guest, the Tracker. Seven years before, Crispin…
Veil of Lies
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Poor Crispin Guest! In Jeri Westerson’s debut novel, set in 14th-century London and described as “a medieval noir,” Crispin…
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