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“Suspect, bah! We’ll drag him out in the open!” said Gaunt. “Let’s go!”

Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage: A Geoffrey Chaucer Murder Mystery by Mary Devlin

August 7, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Geoffrey Chaucer is invited by two of his old friends to join them on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. Unfortunately, the trip gets a spanner put into it by the murder of one of the travelers; the beautiful yet mysterious gypsy, Sophia. Can Geoffrey (and his old friend John of Gaunt, uncle and regent to the King) solve the murder, even if they disagree on Geoffrey’s reliance on astrology to do so? And will Geoffrey do anything with the […]

Filed Under: History, Mystery Tagged With: #medieval murder mystery, 14th century england, john of gaunt, Mary Devlin, the canterbury tales

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:42 · Genres: History, Mystery · Tags: #medieval murder mystery, 14th century england, john of gaunt, Mary Devlin, the canterbury tales ·
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“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise”- Albert Camus

Desolation: A Ralph de Mandeville Mystery by Keith Moray

August 1, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

1361, York. As the country attempts to recover from the Hundred Years’ War with France, nobleman and commoner alike start to have another concern: whispers that the pestilence, one of the ultimate equalizers,  has returned to England. But murder stops for nothing, and  Sir Ralph de Mandeville, ex-solider and newly appointed Justice of the Peace, is sent to just outside York to investigate the murder of Coroner Sir Boderick de Whitby. More deaths quickly follow, and while these are claimed as some to be plague […]

Filed Under: History, Mystery Tagged With: #plague, 14th century england, end times, Keith Moray

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:38 · Genres: History, Mystery · Tags: #plague, 14th century england, end times, Keith Moray ·
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