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The Demon’s Parchment. Coming in October 2010.
In fourteenth century London, Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight convicted of treason and stripped of his land, title and his honor. He has become known as the “Tracker”—a man who can find anything, can solve any puzzle and, with the help of his apprentice, Jack Tucker, an orphaned street urchin with a thief’s touch—will do so for a price. But this time, even Crispin is wary of taking on his most recent client. Jacob of Provencal is a Jewish physician at the King’s court, even though all Jews were expelled from England nearly a century before. Jacob wants Crispin to find stolen parchments that might be behind the recent, ongoing, gruesome murders of young boys, parchments that someone might have used to bring forth a demon which now stalks the streets and alleys of London.
Read an excerpt from The Demon’s Parchment.
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Serpent in the Thorns. In Bookstores. 2010 Finalist for the Bruce Alexander Historical Mystery Award and 2010 Finalist for the Macavity–the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award.
A simple-minded tavern girl stirs up trouble for Crispin when a body is found in her room, killed by an arrow. Making matters worse, the murdered man was one of three couriers from France, transporting a relic with grave diplomatic implications. Now, as time runs out, Crispin must unravel the conspiracy behind the murder to save not only his king, but himself as well.
Read an excerpt from Serpent in the Thorns.
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Veil of Lies. Book One of the Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Series. In bookstores. 2009 Finalist for the Macavity–Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award and 2009 Finalist for the Shamus for Best First PI Award.
Former knight turned detective, Crispin Guest, is called to the compound of a successful but reclusive cloth merchant who suspects his wife of infidelity and wants Crispin to look into the matter. In dire need of money, Crispin reluctantly agrees and discovers that the wife is indeed up to something. But when he comes to inform his client, he finds the merchant dead in a sealed room, locked from the inside. Now Crispin has come to the unwanted attention of the Lord Sheriff of London and finds himself in the middle of a complex plot involving dark secrets, international intrigue, and a missing religious relic—one that lies at the very heart of this heinous and impossible crime.
Read an excerpt from Veil of Lies.