Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)
Dark Queen Waiting (A Margaret Beaufort Mystery)
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In 1471, England is in the hands of the House of York. King Edward IV employs a vast network of spies, assassins, and informants ...Read Review
This Son of York
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Murderer. Usurper. Hunchback. Richard III is one of the most vilified monarchs in historical memory. Fourth in line for the York English throne, ...Read Review
Winter’s Child
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15th-century Florence: In one night, one man destroyed Amadora’s life. Her mentor and father figure: murdered. Herself: violated and left for dead. ...Read Review
A Tapestry of Treason
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Anne O’Brien’s books seek to give voice to the forgotten women of history, and in A Tapestry of Treason she does ...Read Review
Tudor Dawn
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In this, the first of an anticipated series of six books chronicling the rise and fall of one of England’s most powerful ...Read Review
To Calais, In Ordinary Time
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James Meek is a greatly respected author (The People’s Act of Love, 2005), and his latest book has been well reviewed. Hilary Mantel ...Read Review
Without a Trace
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This is the latest instalment in a series of mediaeval mysteries starring Hugh Singleton, a surgeon with a second job as the bailiff ...Read Review
Murder at Whitby Abbey (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery)
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When Hildegard, a nun in the little Yorkshire priory of Swyne, receives orders from the prioress to fetch a holy relic from a ...Read Review
Memoirs of a Traitor
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Presented as a found document, Memoirs of a Traitor is the story of William Stanley, knight, younger brother of Lord Thomas Stanley. These ...Read Review
The Bone Fire: A Somershill Manor Mystery
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The Black Death stalks England in 1361, and Oswald de Lacy seeks safety for his family. He brings them to an isolated castle on ...Read Review