The village of Walmer is a small, claustrophobic place where everyone knows everyone and everyone's business. Everyone knows the blacksmith, Elias, liked to drink and liked the ladies. Everyone knows his wife, Isabella, had been spotted many a time entering the woods with men other than her husband. And everyone knows the couple fought, sometimes violently. But could they have independently, and on the same day - the festive eve of Michaelmas - murdered each other with two entirely different poisons? The village's medicine woman, Mother Croul, doesn't think so. And neither does Kathryn Swinbrooke, Physician of Canterbury, who is in town with her new husband, Colum Murtagh. Kathryn and Colum are visiting on state business: Lord Henry Beauchamp is to receive the shadowy emissaries of Louis XI of France, on behalf of his own master, Edward of York, only recently triumphant over Lancastrian forces in the bloody, fratricidal War of the Roses. The Frenchmen claim to have the ultimate bargaining chip - but do they? It is a tense time for the kingdom; everything hinges on the meeting between Lord Henry and the French agents. Now murder stalks the land, and only Kathryn Swinbrooke can cut through the web of murder and deceit that seems to arrive with the Spider King's minions.

A Feast of Poisons: A Kathryn Swinbrooke Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

C. L. Grace

P.C. DOHERTY

Mystery

Minotaur Books

Investigating the death of Lady Eleanor, who had been banished in the wake of her affair with the Prince of Wales, chief clerk Hugh Corbett struggles with the deceptive plot of a killer as the number of victims increases. Reprint.

The Prince of Darkness (Hugh Corbett)

Worldwide Library

Dove Amongst the Hawks

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Robert Hale, Ltd.

It is 1301 and a fragile peace exists between Edward of England and Philip IV of France. In the fetid alleys and slums of London and Paris it is a different matter. Here the secret agents of both countries still fight their own, silent, deadly battles. The Prince of Wales wallows in luxury under the sinister influence of his favourite, Gaveston, who has secret political ambitions to dominate the young prince and the English crown. These scandals are threatened with exposure when Lady Belmont, the prince's former mistress, is found dead, her neck broken, at the foot of a nunnery's steps. Was it suicide? An accident? Or malicious murder? Edward turns to his master spy, Hugh Corbett, to solve the mystery. In doing so, Corbett must face the deadly rivalry of his French counterpart, the murderous rage of Gaveston and the silent threats of assassins. He must also contend with the lies and silken deceits of his own master.

The Prince Of Darkness

St.Martin's Press

Assassin in the Greenwood

Headline

As Chaucer's pilgrims shelter in the ruins of a church, the poor Priest narrates his mysterious tale.  Young Philip Trumpington, the new Scawsby parish priest, finds that the old church harbours shocking secrets. Years earlier, some Templars were massacred on the marshes, their attackers led by Romenal, a former Scawsby vicar. Philip discovers the old church is haunted by 'The Watchers' and the villagers are scarred by a terrible curse. An ancient evil must be resolved and reparation made. But the price will be great...

Ghostly Murders

It is 1453, Constantinople is about to fall and the Byzantine Emperor decrees that two knights destroy a tomb in the palace, which contains a beautiful princess. When attempting to obey their orders, the air becomes perfumed with the scent of roses and she comes to life. Nearly twenty years later in England they are still haunted by her.

The Rose Demon

Headline Book Publishing

In October 1866, Father Oliver Grafield, accompanied by his sister Emma, is brought from his parish for an interview with Archbishop Manning of Westminster. Oliver is a committed Catholic priest, with one special gift, the ability to exorcise 'divining spirits'.

The Haunting

The Angel of Death

In 1298, Edward I of England invaded Scotland and brutally sacked the town of Berwick, razing to the ground the Red House of the Flemings who had permission to trade there. He little knew his action would have far-reaching repercussions. A year later, Edward convokes a great assembly of the realm in St Paul's Cathedral. They are to hear Mass after which the main celebrant, Walter de Montfort, has been delegated to lecture the King on not taxing the Church. During the Mass, de Montfort dies a sudden and violent death. Hugh Corbett, the King's clerk, is given the task of solving the mystery and tracking down the murderer. Against the background of Edward's struggle to maintain himself, both at home and aborad, Corbett's investigations become tortuous and laced with danger...

The Prince of Darkness

It is 1301 and a fragile peace exists between Edward of England and Philip IV of France. In the fetid alleys and slums of London and Paris it is a different matter. Here the secret agents of both countries still fight their own, silent, deadly battles. The Prince of Wales wallows in luxury under the sinister influence of his favourite, Gaveston, who has secret political ambitions to dominate the young prince and the English crown. These scandals are threatened with exposure when Lady Belmont, the prince's former mistress, is found dead, her neck broken, at the foot of a nunnery's steps. Was it suicide? An accident? Or malicious murder? Edward turns to his master spy, Hugh Corbett, to solve the mystery. In doing so, Corbett must face the deadly rivalry of his French counterpart, the murderous rage of Gaveston and the silent threats of assassins. He must also contend with the lies and silken deceits of his own master.

The Prince of Darkness (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 5): A gripping medieval mystery of intrigue and espionage

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