Doherty: 388 books
By Murder's Bright Light
A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery 5
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Winter, 1379, and a sea of trouble is besetting England. French privateers attack the southern coast on a path to threaten London itself. In response, an English flotilla of warships, including God’s Bright Light, drops anchor in the Thames. During the night, however, the first mate and two of the...
Murder Most Holy
A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery 3
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Summer, 1379. Sir John Cranston, coroner of the city of London, is trapped into a wager with Signor Gian Galeazzo, Lord of Cremona, when challenged to resolve a certain murder mystery within two weeks. Men have been found dead in the scarlet chamber of one of Cremona’s manors. They have no mark...
The Anger of God
A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery 4
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Autumn, 1379. The power of the crown is invested in John of Gaunt, and the kingdom is seething with discontent. The French are attacking the southern ports and peasants are planning a revolt organised by a mysterious leader who proclaims himself ‘Ira Dei’, the Anger of God. His plans plunged into...
Nightshade
A Hugh Corbett Medieval Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
An unscrupulous manor lord has reneged on his promise to hand over a priceless ornate cross stolen from the Templars during the Crusades. Furthermore, he has massacred as heretics fourteen members of a religious order. The King sends Hugh Corbett, devoted emissary of King Edward I to Mistleham in...
by P. C. Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
"Resurrectionist magic." —The New York Times Book Review
It's 1095 and crusading fervor has swept Europe. Hugh de Payens and Godefroi of St. Omer, the soon-to-be founders of the Templar Order, and Hugh's younger sister, Eleanor, leave the security of their homes in Burgundy, France,...
The Poisoner of Ptah
A Story of Intrigue and Murder Set in Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes, three of Egypt`s leading scribes die violently on the Temple forecourt, the victims of a vile poisoning. To add to the mounting unease, a prosperous merchant and his young wife are found drowned. Rumors soon sweep the imperial city. The...
by Paul Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The village of Walmer near Canterbury is a small, claustrophobic place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Everyone knows the blacksmith, Elias, liked to drink and liked the ladies. Everyone knows his wife, Isabella, had been spotted many a time entering the woods with men other than her...
The Devil's Domain
A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery 8
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In the summer of 1380 a French captain is murdered in Hawkmere Manor – a lonely, gloomy dwelling place, otherwise known as the ‘Devil’s Domain’, which is used by Regent John of Gaunt to house French prisoners captured during the bloody battles waged between the French and the English on the...
Pilgrimage to Murder, A
A Medieval Mystery set in 14th Century London
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Summer, 1381. The Great Revolt has been crushed; the king’s peace ruthlessly enforced. Brother Athelstan meanwhile is preparing for a pilgrimage to St Thomas a Becket’s shrine in Canterbury to give thanks for the wellbeing of his congregation after the violent rebellion.
But preparations...
The Great Revolt
A mystery set in Medieval London
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Sleuthing monk Brother Athelstan discovers that past crimes can cause new murder in the latest intriguing medieval mystery
June, 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London, determined to overturn both Crown and Church. The Regent, John of Gaunt, has headed north, leaving his nephew, the...
Candle Flame
A novel of Mediaeval London featuring Brother Athelstan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An intriguing medieval mystery featuring Brother Athelstan
February, 1381. London lies frozen in the grip of one of the bitterest winters on record. The ever-rising taxes demanded by the Regent, John of Gaunt, are causing increasing resentment among the city’s poor. When the seething unrest...
Mansions of Murder
A Medieval mystery
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
A murdered priest, a missing body, stolen treasure: Brother Athelstan tackles his most challenging investigation to date.
October, 1381. Brother Athelstan is summoned to the church of St Benet’s in Queenhithe to investigate the murder of a priest. Parson Reynaud has been found stabbed to...
The Midnight Man
A Canterbury Tales Medieval Mystery 7
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A ‘Canterbury Tales’ medieval mystery - As Chaucer’s pilgrims shelter for the night, it’s the physician’s turn to enthral his fellow travellers with a terrifying tale. When Brother Anselm and his novice Stephen are summoned to the Church of St Michael’s, Candlewick, to perform an exorcism,...
by Norah Wilson, Heather Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
How far would you go to escape your own personal teenage hell? Would you run away, break away from everything you know—even your own body?
Alex Robbins, Brooke Saunders and Maryanne Hemlock could not be more different, yet they all have something in common—deep and soul-searing pain....