Medieval
Mystery Novels
Simon Beaufort:
A series of mysteries solved by Sir Geoffrey de Mappestone, newly returned from the Crusades.
A Head for Poisoning (1999)
Murder in the Holy City (1998)
Simon Beaufort, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Philip Gooden, The Tainted Relic (2005)
Six mystery writers contribute a chapter apiece in tracing a fragment of the True Cross as it makes its way across Europe, leaving murder and mystery in its wake.
Mary Devlin, Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage (2000)
Chaucer and associates tackle the mystery of a gypsy woman’s death.
P. C. Doherty (also publishes as Paul Harding), The Death of a King (1998)
A chancery clerk investigates the death of Edward II.
---Mysteries solved by the 14th-century clerk Sir Hugh Corbett:
The Devil's Hunt (1998)
The Demon Archer
Murder Wears A Cowl
The Song of a Dark Angel
(and many others)
---Tales told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury:
Ghostly Murders: The Priest's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury (1998)
A Tapestry of Murders: The Lawyer's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury (1996)
A Tournament of Murders: The Franklin's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgirmage from London to Canterbury (1997)
An Ancient Evil: The Knight's Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgimage from London to Canterbury
— The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan:
Lord Coroner Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan solve mysteries in 14th-century London:
The Nightingale Gallery
Red Slayer
Murder Most Holy'
Anger of God
The Assassin's Riddle
Ariana Franklin,
Mistress of the Art of Death (2007)
A
young woman is “mistress of the art of death,” or a forensic
pathologist, investigating mysterious deaths in this meticulously researched
thriller set in medieval Cambridge.
Margaret Frazer,
the Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries
Centered
on an English nun in the reign of Henry VI:
The Maiden's Tale (1998)
The Prioress' Tale (1997)
The Novice's Tale (1993)
The Boy's Tale (1995)
The Servant's Tale (1997)
The Bishop's Tale (1994)
The Murderer's Tale (1996)
The Outlaw's Tale (1995)
The Reeve's Tale (1999)
The Squire's Tale (2000)
The Traitor’s Tale (2007)
Alan Gordon, Thirteenth
Night: A Medieval Mystery (1999)
"Here's
a fresh idea: Feste, a minor character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,
is actually a top operative of the Fools' Guild, an organization of professional
jesters who double as secret agents." -- Booklist. Set in
the 13th century, but familiarity with Shakespeare's Twelfth Night makes
the book richer.
—, Jester Leaps In (2000)
—, A Death in the Venetian Quarter (2002)
—, The Widow of Jerusalem (2003)
—, An Antic Disposition (2004)
—, The Lark's Lament (2007)
Martin H. Greenberg, ed., Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises (2000)
Suzanne Gregory, A Masterly Murder (2000)
and other novels involving Matthew Bartholomew, a physician in Cambridge in the 1350s:
A Plague on Both Your Houses
An Unholy Alliance
A Bone of Contention
A Deadly Brew
A Wicked Deed
Michael Jecks, Medieval West Country Mysteries:
Mysteries set in 14th-century western England, with bailiff Simon Puttock and Sir Baldwin de Furnshill investigating untimely deaths:
The Abbot's Gibbet (2000)
Squire Throwleigh's Heir (1999)
The Crediton Killings (1999)
The Leper's Return (1999)
Belladonna at Belstone (2000)
The Last Templar (1996)
The Merchant's Partner (1998)
A Moorland Hanging (1998)
The Boy-Bishop's Glovemaker (2000)
The Traitor of St. Giles (2001)
A Friar’s Bloodfeud (2005)
The Tolls of Death
The Outlaws of Error
The Chapel of Bones (2005)
The Templar’s Penance
The Sticklepath Strangler
— Knights Templar Mysteries:
The Merchant’s Partner
A Moorland Hanging
The Butcher of St. Peter’s (2005)
Paul Harding: see P. C. Doherty
Edward Marston, Domesday Mystery series:
Set in 11th-century England, with Norman lord Ralph Delchard investigating dastardly deeds:
The Wolves of Savernake (1995)
The Dragons of Archenfeld (1997)
The Ravens of Blackwater
The Serpents of Harbledown
The Stallions of Woodstock (1999)
The Hawks of Delamere
Viviane Moore, Blue Blood: A Medieval Mystery. Trans. Rory Mulholland. (2000)
Ian. Morson, Falconer mysteries:
---Revolving around Oxford Regent Master and philosopher William Falconer, set in the 13th century:
Falconer's Judgement (1997)
Falconer and the Face of God (1997)
Falconer and the Great Beast (1999)
Falconer's Crusade (1996)
A Psalm for Falconer
Sharan Newman, Series about Catherine Le Vendeur and family, set in 12th-century France:
Death Comes as Epiphany (1993)
The Devil's Door (1994)
The Wandering Arm (1995)
Strong As Death (1996)
Cursed in the Blood (1998)
The Difficult Saint (1999)
To Wear the White Cloak (2000)
Heresy (2002)
The Outcast Dove (2003)
The Witch in the Well (2004)
Charles Palliser, The Unburied (1999)
Sharon Kay Penman, Mystery series about Justin de Quincy, a "spyman" for Eleanor of Aquitaine in twelfth-century England:
The Queen's Man
Cruel as the Grave
Ellis Peters, The Brother Cadfael series:
The series that started it all and still the gold standard for most medieval mystery readers:
A Morbid Taste for Bones
One Corpse Too Many
Monk's Hood
St. Peter’s Fair
The Leper of St. Giles
The Virgin in the Ice
The Sanctuary Sparrow
A Rare Benedictine
(and others)
Candace Robb,
---Series about the Welshman Owen Archer. Among the more popular of recent medieval mysteries:
The Apothecary Rose (1994)
The Lady Chapel (1995)
The Nun's Tale (1996)
The King's Bishop (1997)
The Riddle of St. Leonard's (1997)
A Gift of Sanctuary (2000)
Caroline Roe, Chronicles of Isaac of Girona:
Mysteries set in medieval Spain, centering on a blind Jewish physician and his family:
Cure for a Charlatan (1999)
An Antidote for Avarice (1999)
Remedy for Treason (1998)
Solace for a Sinner (2000)
A Potion for a Widow (2001)
A Draught for a Dead Man (2002)
A Poultice for a Healer (2003)
Consolation for an Exile (2005)
Kate Sedley, Roger the Chapman Medieval Mysteries.
Set in 15th-century England featuring Roger the Chapman, a peddlar who solves mysteries:
The Holy Innocents (1996)
The Wicked Winter (1999)
The Eve of St. Hyacinth (1996)
Death and the Chapman (1992)
The Hanged Man (1999)
The Plymouth Cloak (1994)
The Weaver's Tale
Peter Tremayne, Sister Fidelma Series:
The detective in question is a seventh-century nun named Sister Fidelma.
Absolution by Murder (1997)
Act of Mercy: A Celtic Mystery
The Subtle Serpent
Suffer Little Children
Shroud for the Archbishop
Valley of the Shadow
The Monk Who Vanished
Our Lady of Darkness
Smoke in the Wind
Joan Wolf, No Dark Place (2000)
Hugh de Leon faces two mysteries — the murder of his adoptive father and the secret of his real parentage — in 12th-century England. Its sequel is:
The Poisoned Serpent (2000).
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