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Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the autumn of 1210, Abbess Caliste is concerned about the welfare of her nuns at Hawkenlye Abbey after King John's men have taken it over, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Mannor with Josse, and Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing.
Author
Series
Aelf Fen novels volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Apprentice healer Lassair isn't too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grisly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman's home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her attitude changes when she learns that the dead woman is a distant relation. The incident makes Lassair's family uneasy, for the intruder seemed to be searching for something. What could it be? Lassair has...
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 1
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1880. 'I'm dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife...' When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are initially skeptical. How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond...
Author
Series
Aelf Fen novels volume 6
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected peril, while in the south, Rollo, the man Lassair loves, find his life in danger while on a mission for King William when disaster strikes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"October, 1093. Two young men have been brutally beaten to death; a third viciously attacked. All three men are of similar appearance. But could there be another connection? Lassair meanwhile has agreed to accompany her former lover Rollo on a perilous journey north in search of King William. On their trail is a skilled, relentless and ruthless assassin. Who is he -- and why has he targeted Rollo? If they are to survive, the hunted must become the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It is the summer of 1100, and after seven long years away in Spain, Lassair is finally going home. Back to her beloved mentor Gurdyman. Back to her family. And back to young lawman Jack Chevestrier, who Lassair hopes still carries the same deep feelings for her as she does for him. Before she can reunite with her loved ones, however, Lassair has a long-overdue task to perform. Old flame - and king's spy - Rollo Guiscard left her a chest before he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her cell near Hawkenlye Abbey to help the needy, early thirteenth century abbess Helewise compromises her relationship with Sir Josse D'Acquin, who investigates the ritual murders of three men at the same time his son becomes involved in the causes of the doomed Cathars.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sir Josse d'Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John in the 17th--and final--Hawkenlye mystery. September, 1216. A foreign army has invaded England. The country is divided. Some support the rebel barons and Prince Louis of France; others remain loyal to the king. His rule under threat, King John summons Sir Josse d'Acquin to support him. But can Sir Josse save the king from himself? Meanwhile, Josse's daughter Meggie is summoned to Hawkenlye...
10) A shadowed evil
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Sir Josse d'Acquin is summoned to his elderly uncle's deathbed, he must uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Josse's cousin Aeleis, the whereabouts of the son of his uncle's heir, and if his uncle's death may be murder.
11) The winter king
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On All Saint's Eve, 1211, an overweight but wealthy nobleman, desperate for an heir, dies at the celebration feast he has thrown in his own hall, and apothecary Sabin de Gifford is called in to investigate.
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"'Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery. London, August 1881. After a difficult few months, the World's End Investigation Bureau is thriving. Affairs, sex scandals, divorces... Lily Raynor is delighted to have so much work for herself and her capable assistant, Felix Wilbraham, but she can't help...
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be less perilous than a trip to a girls' boarding school,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Attempting to establish himself as a physician in 1603 Devon, former ship's surgeon Gabriel Taverner is called to examine a body found beside the river and discovers the death may be linked to darker aspects of Plymouth's lucrative silk trade.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the edge of the moor, it's the verdict of physician Gabriel Taverner that the man died of natural causes-- but is all as it seems? Who was the dead man, and why had he come to the small West Country village of Tavy St Luke's to die cold, sick and alone? With no one claiming to have known him, his identity remains a mystery. Then a discovery found buried in a nearby field throws a strange new...
Author
Series
Hawkenlye mystery volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Josse d'Acquin joins forces with Abbess Helewise to investigate the mysterious death of a man at the Tonbridge inn, a victim who was apparently poisoned by wolf's bane in a piece of pie baked by the inn's hostess, Goody Anne.
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