12th Century

King

By Ben Kane - Published 2022

Genres:

Adventure

This book is the third in the Lionheart series, and possibly the last. Again, Irish-born Ferdia/Rufus and his man Rhys are major ...Read Review

The Tinner’s Corpse (The Crowner John Mysteries Book 5)

By Bernard Knight - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Poor Crowner John! The unseasonably cold weather of April 1195 is the last of his many woes. His shrewish wife is bent on making ...Read Review

The Poisoned Chalice (The Crowner John Mysteries Book 2)

By Bernard Knight - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

In 1194 off the coast of Devonshire, a shipwreck and three dead sailors drag Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, out of Exeter ...Read Review

The Awful Secret (The Crowner John Mysteries Book 4)

By Bernard Knight - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Exeter, 1195. King Richard the Lionheart is away on crusade. The protagonist, John de Wolfe, is the King’s Coroner (Crowner) for Devon and ...Read Review

The Eunuch

By Jonathan Kos-Read - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This debut novel, set in Jin Dynasty (12th-century) China, is a unique historical mystery. Most procedurals feature an arbitrary deadline imposed by superiors ...Read Review

The Lady’s Keeper (The Medieval Ladies Series)

By Coirle Mooney - Published 2022

Genres:

In 1168, the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine is alive with entertainment and courtiers. Alice has brought her young niece Lady Joanna to the ...Read Review

The Red Fletch (Heroes of Sherwood)

By Margaret McNellis - Published 2021

Genres:

Adventure

Alys’s beloved brother, Hob, is joining Robin of Locksley to retake the Holy Lands. Meanwhile, she’s being sent to serve Maid ...Read Review

Rotherwood: A Prequel to Ivanhoe

By Chris Thorndycroft - Published 2021

Genres:

Adventure

England and the Holy Land are the settings of this 12th-century imagining of Wilfred of Ivanhoe’s life over the four years before ...Read Review

Robin Hood: The Shadows of Sherwood Forest

By Oliver Latch (trans.) - By Tilman Roehrig - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This novel opens at the 1189 death of King Henry II, followed by the crowning of his older son, Richard the Lionheart, and Richard’...Read Review

Olav Audunssøn: Providence

By Sigrid Undset - By Tiina Nunnally (trans.) - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

Olav Audunssøn: Providence is Tiina Nunnally’s new translation of Book Two of Sigrid Undset’s lauded Audunssøn series. Originally published ...Read Review