Simon Beaufort, Author, Bernard Knight, Author, Michael Jecks, Author ). Simon & Schuster U.K. $14.95 (502p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6795-3
This entertaining but uneven round-robin effort by six British crime writers traces the sinister history of a "fragment of the true cross" from its origin in Jerusalem in A.D. 1100 through 10 bloody centuries. In Beaufort's prologue,...
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Bernard Knight, Author . Simon & Schuster U.K. $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9498-0
A serial killer targets respected guildsmen in Knight’s gripping 11th Crowner John mystery (after The Elixir of Life
), set in 12th-century Exeter. When Matthew Morcok, a former master saddler, is found mummified above a renovated school, the...
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Bernard Knight, Author . Simon & Schuster U.K. $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9-499-7
The lack of a true puzzle mars Knight's otherwise solid 12th historical to feature Devon coroner Sir John de Wolfe (after 2008's The Noble Outlaw
). In April 1196, an attack by one ship on another in the English Channel culminates in the...
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Bernard Knight, Author . Simon & Schuster U.K. $24.95 (369p) ISBN 978-1-84737-297-0
Set in 1196, the intriguing 14th entry in Knight's Crowner John series (The Manor of Death
, etc.) takes Sir John de Wolfe to Westminster, where Richard the Lionheart has appointed him Coroner of the Verge. One hot summer day, from the window...
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Bernard Knight, Author Severn $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6874-9
Knight brings his own experience as a Home Office pathologist to this absorbing first in a new series set in Britain’s Wye Valley. When pathologist Richard Pryor and Angela Bray, a young biologist on the rebound from a broken engagement, go...
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Bernard Knight, Author Severn House Publishers $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5913-6
Crowner John, coroner for the county of Devon, must deal with his obstructive brother-in-law, Sheriff Richard de Revelle, during an inquest on an unidentified body in Bernard Knight's The Sanctuary Seeker: A Crowner John Mystery, the first title...
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Bernard Knight, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6009-5
John investigates a series of baffling murders in 12th-century Devon.
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Bernard Knight, Pocket U.K. (IPG, dist.), $8.99 mass market (382p) ISBN 978-1-847393-29-6
Devon coroner John de Wolfe confronts the twin specters of contagion and religious violence in Knight's workmanlike 14th Crowner John mystery (after 2009's Crowner Royal). In late 1196, de Wolfe attempts to solve several grisly killings, starting...
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Bernard Knight. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6986-9
Set in 1955, Knight's enjoyable second Richard Pryor mystery (after 2010's Where Death Delights) finds Pryor, now a Home Office forensic pathologist, and his professional partner, Angela Bray, a forensic biologist, continuing to run their private...
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Bernard Knight. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8107-6
The discovery of a headless body in a Cardiganshire bog prompts Welsh pathologist Richard Pryor and Angela Bray, his forensic consultancy business partner, to swing into high gear in Knight’s solid third 1950s mystery (after 2010’s According to the...
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Bernard Knight. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8161-8
The unusual setting, Perak State in 1954 British Malaya, boosts this first in a new series from Knight (A Plague of Heretics and 13 other Crowner John medieval historicals). As British colonial rule wanes, a growing independence movement has...
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Bernard Knight. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8221-9
Both established fans and newcomers will appreciate Knight’s engaging 15th mystery featuring Sir John de Wolfe (after 2010’s A Plague of Heretics), a prequel. In October 1192, after 18 months of combat in the Holy Land, a dejected Richard the Lion-He
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Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Karen Maitland, Ian Morson, Philip Gooden. Simon & Schuster U.K. (IPG, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-85720-426-4
Gregory and Maitland’s contributions lift the winning seventh collaborative effort by five of today’s top historical mystery novelists (after 2011’s The Sacred Stone). In Gregory’s chilling variation on The Hound of the Baskervilles, set in 1199,...
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The Medieval Murderers. Simon & Schuster U.K. (IPG, dist.), $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-84983-736-1
A play featuring Cain’s murder of Abel, The Play of Adam, written in 1154 by Prior Wigod for his priory’s Easter pageant, links the six strong narratives in this eighth collective offering (after 2011’s Hill of Bones) from the Medieval Murders (this
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Susanna Gregory, Author, Bernard Knight, Author, Michael Jecks, Author . Simon & Schuster U.K. $14.95 (405p) ISBN 978-1-84737-346-5
Five of Britain's most notable historical mystery authors team for the fifth time (after 2008's The Lost Prophecies
) on a volume whose whole, in this case, is less than the sum of its parts. In 1191, the apparent discovery in Glastonbury...
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The Medieval Murderers. Simon & Schuster U.K. (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-84737-676-3
A meteorite that lands in an isolated Greenland settlement in 1067 propels the so-so sixth collaborative mystery (after 2009's King Arthur's Bones) from the Medieval Murderers (Susanna Gregory, Simon Beaufort, Bernard Knight, Karen Maitland, Ian...
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