Исторический детектив

Египтолог
1922 год. Мир едва оправился от Великой войны. Египтология процветает. Говард Хартер находи...
Virgin in the Ice
In the winter of 1139, raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among t...
King Arthur's Bones
1191. During excavation work at Glastonbury Abbey, an ancient leaden cross is discovered buried sev...
Sword of Shame
From its first arrival in Britain, with the Norman forces of William the Conqueror, violence and re...
The Deadliest Sin
In the spring of 1348, tales begin arriving in England of poisonous clouds fast approaching, which...
The Lost Prophecies
575 AD. A baby is washed up on the Irish coast and is taken to the nearest abbey. He grows up to be...
The Tainted Relic
The anthology centres around a piece of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ,...
The First Murder
Carmarthen, 1199 – A sudden snowstorm in late December means that two parties of travellers are for...
Hill of Bones
Cerdic, a young boy who has the ability to see into the future, has a mysterious treasure in his po...
House of Shadows
Bermondsey Priory, 1114. A young chaplain succumbs to the temptations of the flesh – and suffers a...
The False Virgin
AD 848.Bernwyn of Lythe, the young daughter of an ealdorman, spurns marriage and chooses to remain...
The Prioress' Tale
After Domina Alys was made prioress, St. Frideswide's became little more than a guest-house for her...
The Reeve's Tale
As reeve of the small village of Prior Byfield, Simon Perryn must rule on many local disputes, a ta...
The Clerk's Tale
When she accompanies her prioress on a mercy visit to a nunnery, Dame Frevisse becomes entangled in...
The Hunter's Tale
In Margaret Frazer's eagerly-awaited new medieval mystery, the "devout yet human" nun Dame Frevisse...