Cannonball Read 18

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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

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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 […]

“He might not hold them in high esteem, but he had learnt long ago how precious of their dignity minor officials could be.”

Servant of Death: The First Braadecote and Catchpoll Mystery by Sarah Hawkswood

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Eudo – the Lord Bishop of Winchester’s much feared and extremely loathed clerk – is found bludgeoned to death in Pershore Abbey, laid before the altar in the attitude of a penitent. This isn’t an easy murder to solve, as everyone who ever had contact with him had motive, and there are a lot of people who met him in the Abbey. (To be honest, I wouldn’t have been too surprised if this was a Medieval Murder on the Orient Express. Instead, it’s more The […]

“For a quart of ale is a dish for a king”- William Shakespeare

Sleight of Hand: An Alewives of Colmar Mystery (#2) by Elizabeth R. Andersen

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It is now 1354, and in the Alsatian village of Colmar Efi, Appel, and Grita’s ale business is going extremely prosperously: that is until Efi founds a hand in their ale cauldron; a hand without a body. A hand that apparently belongs to someone from Vogelgrun, a village quite a distance from Colmar. As the three alewives fight to keep suspicion from falling on them (and possibly dooming their business), they have questions to answer: how did the hand wind up here? Where is the […]

The Dullness of Medieval De’Ath

The Heretics of De'Ath by Howard of Warwick

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Bingo Review 3 (Summer Read): The premise of the Heretics of De’Ath is promising: very medieval medieval monk is accused of murder during an important debate (a Conclave) concerning whether or not Christ got sand in his sandals (Hermitage swears he didn’t do it- the murder that is), a weaver of adult tapestries gets involved, an ambitious younger son of an Earl shows up at the monastery, Church officials are corrupt, the abbot might be crazy, agents of the Vatican are afoot, and the King […]

The False Virgin

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So there’s this Saxon princess  Beornwyn in 848 CE. She’s supposed to be the bestest, most nicest, most virginal of all the girls in the land. Except she’s maybe not so much that. And her maid knows everything. Is she going to church to pray, or to meet a lover? And who is the lover? And are the Vikings about to raid the village as well? Something nasty happens in the church, and Beornwyn doesn’t make it. And her maid becomes the virgin saint’s guardian […]

Hill of Bones

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Yup, more medieval murders. Relatively short murder mysteries written by folks who specialize in medieval murder mysteries. Super fun stuff! This one starts way back, with a couple of brothers joining King Arthur in a battle fighting Saxon invaders at the battle of Badon Hill (allegedly, Bath). According to historical records, it took place sometime around 560 CE. A few centuries later, in Bath (a place I’m dying to go), Lady Gwenllian and her husband Sir Symon are summoned to investigate a suspicious death that […]



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