14th Century
The Forest Laird
Being Scotch-Irish and fascinated with the history of Scotland, I was happy to have the opportunity to read and review…
The Mysterium: A Hugh Corbett Mystery
The 17th entry in the Sir Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries opens with a “locked cell” murder of a much-hated, highly…
Unhallowed Ground
Mel Starr has now written a fourth installment of his chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, a surgeon in the town…
A Parliament of Spies
1368, in the reign of Richard II. Richard has summoned Parliament, and all the nobles must attend him at Westminster…
The Friar of Carcassonne
Our modern sensibilities are frequently so offended by the attitudes of previous centuries that we minimize the importance of standing…
King’s Gold
Here is a tale about the costs of remaining loyal when the tides of favor imprison King Edward II, while…
Mystery in the Minster
Dead ends and red herrings are as frustrating as York’s interminable rain in Susanna Gregory’s 17th chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.…
Folville’s Law
The very grimness of this novel of the last year of the reign of Edward II is one of its…
Lions of the Grail
During the troubled reign of Edward II, former Knight Templar Richard Savage has been left to rot in a dungeon.…
To Touch the Knight
1349. In order to escape Giles, their brutal overlord, Edith of Warren Hamlet disguises herself as a princess of Cathay…
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