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January 1313. London is gripped by a freezing winter as Sir Hugh Corbett becomes embroiled in a ghoulish game between the royal courts of England and France. Many years earlier, Corbett prevented a gang of rifflers from breaking into the Royal Treasury, but their leaders, Sarasin...

In 14th Century England, Hugh Corbet, chief clerk and spy for King Edward I, is sent to Nottingham to investigate the death of a sheriff who was poisoned. The mission is complicated because Corbet is the target of an assassin sent by King Philip of France. By the author of Murder...

PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: DEATH'S DARK VALLEY, ISBN 9781472259158. In this 21st entry of the 'Hugh Corbett' series, Sir Hugh Corbett and Lord Simon are bound by the Secret Chancery and their search for one precious ruby - the Lacrima Christi. But, when Corbett learns that Lord Sim...

"Friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan is caught in a politically charged race against time! He must uncover the truth behind numerous gruesome murders in this tense historical mystery set in medieval London. Normandy, 1358: The Free Company of the 'Via Crucis - the Way of the Cross' sw...

In this 24th entry of the 'Hugh Corbett' series, which is set during the summer of 1312, the brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite, Peter Gaveston, unleashes a horde of demons. Once again, Sir Hugh Corbett must employ his wit and ingenuity to navigate the dangerous and dead...

In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, the future Richard II, and the great nobles gather like hungry wolves around the empty throne. As a terri...

England, 1562. In the village of Dunmow, eighteen-year-old Rebecca Lennox is feared by the other villagers, both for her hare lip and her gift of second sight. When a young Catholic priest, Michael St Clair, comes into the village in disguise, Rebecca is much taken by him; he is ...

In the late Autumn of 1380, Brother Athelstan and his parish council are preparing for the Christmas mystery play when a master thief arrives at St. Erconwald's. A series of grisly murders follows but the obvious suspect proves to be not guilty.

"1312. Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, has returned from the West Country to find Westminster in chaos. Edward II has fled in an attempt to protect his favourite from the wrath of his noblemen; and a royal clerk has been found dead, poisoned in a locked chamber. Draw...

November, 1471. With Edward of York on the English throne and her son, Henry Tudor, in exile in Brittany, the newly-widowed Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, is alone, without protectors. All she can do is wait and watch, planning for a time when she's in a position to mak...

London. January, 1382. The Crown's treasury has been robbed. Tens of thousands of silver and gold coin mysteriously lifted from the most secure chamber in the kingdom; the five Clerks of the Dark who guarded the king's treasure brutally garrotted. Sir John Cranston and Brother At...

In 1291, Lord Oliver Scrope defended Acre against the Saracens but managed to abscond with some Templar treasure. Now, in 1304, King Edward wants it. In the town of Mistleham, near Scrope's manor, people start to die.