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Historical fiction
The Geoffrey Chaucer Mysteries place the poet before the completion of The Canterbury Tales, when royal service carried him through London, Aquitaine, Florence and the ports of southern England. Chaucer acts as a household officer, diplomatic messenger and reluctant investigator while England’s war with France depends on uncertain…
The Medieval Murderers books are collaborative historical-mystery anthologies in which a shared relic, manuscript, legend, place or moral theme links separate crimes across centuries. Each contributor writes an episode using characters from an established series or a new historical setting, so the central object accumulates competing meanings as…
The Nick Revill mysteries follow a provincial actor who joins the Chamberlain’s Men near the end of Elizabeth I’s reign. Each investigation mirrors a Shakespeare play being written or performed, placing murder inside rehearsal rooms, inns, country houses, court entertainments and the commercial theatre of London. The sequence…
The Tom Ansell Cathedral Mysteries follow a young London solicitor and his wife Helen through Salisbury, Durham, Cambridge and Ely in the mid-1870s. Legal instructions involving manuscripts, wills and family property draw them into murders hidden behind cathedral respectability, private houses and the authority of established professional men.…
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