Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $28.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6870-1
British author Sedley smoothly integrates a complex murder case with the cataclysmic political events that roiled England in 1483 in her solid 19th Roger the Chapman historical (after 2009's The Dance of Death
). Rakish investigator Roger makes
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Kate Sedley. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8275-2
Sedley’s 22nd Roger the Chapman mystery (after 2012’s The Tintern Treasure), one of her best, perfectly blends action, detection, and period color. Although 1483 has been a tumultuous year for England with the ascension of Richard III to the throne (
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Kate Sedley. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8164-9
Sedley gets the proportions of history and mystery just right in her solid 21st Roger the Chapman whodunit (after 2011’s The Midsummer Crown). In the fall of 1483, England is in tumult after the boy king, Edward V, has been deposed in favor of...
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Kate Sedley. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8019-2
The brief reign of 12-year-old Edward V forms the dramatic background to Sedley's excellent 20th Roger the Chapman mystery (after 2010's Wheel of Fate). In 1483, Richard, duke of Gloucester, "the most important personage in the kingdom after the...
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Kate Sedley, Author Severn House Publishers $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5867-2
Roger the Chapman looks into the stabbing death of Jasper Fairbrother, a Bristol baker, as Lammastide (""Loaf-mass"") approaches in Kate Sedley's 11th medieval mystery, The Lammas Feast, after The Saint John's Fern (Forecasts, July 15). As usual,
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Kate Sedley, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-27282-1
Those who have enjoyed the sleuthing of Sedley's 15th-century peddler Roger the Chapman know what a feast of storytelling, historical detail and clever crime solving awaits. Those who haven't should give the series a try (The Holy Innocents, etc.)....
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Kate Sedley, Author St. Martin's Press $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11823-5
The mysterious murder of two children captures the determined curiosity of Roger the chapman, the 15th-century English peddlar with a nose for detection, recently met in The Weaver's Tale (1994). With the War of the Roses a distant backdrop, the...
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Kate Sedley, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-10474-0
During the bitterly icy January of 1474, in the English river port of Bristol, Roger the Chapman falls desperately ill with the ague. In his third absorbing appearance, after The Plymouth Cloak , Roger is taken in and nursed by weaver's widow...
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Kate Sedley, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-08875-0
In her second well-crafted medieval mystery featuring valiant Roger the sic Chapman, Sedley ( Death and the Chapman ) places her strapping 21-year-old peddler in the treacherous duplicity of the War of the Roses. In 1473, a benign Richard of...
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Kate Sedley, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20625-3
It's not just the weather that's bleak in Sedley's well-told tale, her sixth set in the Middle Ages and featuring monk-turned-traveling salesman Roger the Chapman (Death and the Chapman, etc.). Unlike the others in his village, the sharp-witted,...
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Kate Sedley, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-27684-3
Roger the Chapman, hero and narrator of Sedley's late 15th-century series (The Plymouth Cloak, etc.), has again recounted a rich and wonderful tale. The Wars of the Roses having lasted for decades, the English people are weary of civil war and...
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Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $28.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6745-2
With the health of England's Edward IV in decline, potential successors jockey for position in Sedley's absorbing 18th Roger the Chapman mystery (after 2008's The Green Man
). If allegations about the monarch's suspect parentage...
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Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $28.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6617-2
At the outset of Sedley's rewarding 17th mystery to feature Roger the Chapman (after 2007's The Three Kings of Cologne
), Roger joins an English army set to invade Scotland in the summer of 1482. The duke of Albany, whose older brother, James III of
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Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6481-9
In Sedley's well-crafted 15th medieval historical to feature Roger the Chapman (after 2006's The Prodigal Son
), Alderman John Foster, the mayor of Bristol, suspects foul play when the corpse of a young woman, identified as Isabella...
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Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $28.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6337-9
At the start of Sedley's solid medieval historical, the latest in her series to feature Roger the Chapman, the genial peddler discovers that he has a half-brother who has just been accused of a murder committed six years before. Roger's...
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Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $28.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6216-7
In the spring of 1480, Roger the Chapman, the hero of Sedley's beguiling historical series (The Lammas Feast
, etc.), is planning a peddling excursion away from his troubled family in Bristol when the duke of Gloucester's spymaster summons...
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Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $26.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5977-8
Careful plotting, strong characters and a wealth of period detail distinguish the latest adventure of itinerant peddler and sleuth, Roger the Chapman, from British author Sedley (The Lammas Feast). As the gloomy winter of 1478 draws to a close,...
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Kate Sedley, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-312-27683-6
British author Sedley (The Weaver's Inheritance; The Goldsmith's Daughter; etc.) offers a vivid picture of day-to-day life and politics in 15th-century England in her latest mystery featuring her peripatetic peddler and part-time sleuth,...
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Kate Sedley, Author . Severn $25.99 (222p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5732-3
Amateur sleuth Roger the Chapman has very little to go on as once again Richard, Duke of Gloucester, calls on him to exercise his investigative skills in this 10th solid medieval mystery from British author Sedley (The Wicked Winter, etc.). Just...
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