17 Top crime books like The Troubadour's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #5) by Ann Swinfen

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The Troubadour's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #5)

By: Ann Swinfen

4.35

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

When Nicholas Elyot and his friends set out to spend the Christmas season in the country, they are …

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Cover of Crowner Royal (Crowner John Mystery, #13) by Bernard Knight

1. Crowner Royal (Crowner John Mystery, #13)

By: Bernard Knight

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, 1196. At the command of Richard the Lionheart, Sir John de Wolfe has left his beloved West … read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of Murder Most Holy (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #3) by Paul  Doherty, Paul  Harding

2. Murder Most Holy (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #3)

By: Paul Doherty , Paul Harding

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It is the early summer of 1379 and Sir John Cranston—Coroner of the city of London—has trapped hims… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
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3. The Weaver's Tale (Roger the Chapman, #3)

By: Kate Sedley

4.05

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

When the disreputable brother of a respected nobleman is hanged for murdering a man who later tur… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew, #1) by Susanna Gregory

4. A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew, #1)

By: Susanna Gregory

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Ellis Peters, A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces the physician Matthew Bar… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew, #2) by Susanna Gregory

5. An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew, #2)

By: Susanna Gregory

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

Two years after the Black Death has decimated the population of England, a new killer is stalking t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
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6. The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
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"In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly."

-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

"Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it."

-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

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7. Death and the Chapman (Roger the Chapman, #1)

By: Kate Sedley

3.66

Format: 146 pages,

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
Cover of A Plague of Heretics (Crowner John Mystery #14) by Bernard Knight

8. A Plague of Heretics (Crowner John Mystery #14)

By: Bernard Knight

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

With the city of Exeter ravaged by an outbreak of the 'yellow plague', Sir John de Wolfe, the count… read more

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  • historical
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  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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  • medieval
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9. The Sanctuary Seeker (Crowner John Mystery #1)

By: Bernard Knight

4.27

Format: 224 pages,

When an unidentified body is found in the village of Widecombe, Crowner (coroner) John is eager to … read more

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10. The Nightingale Gallery (Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #1)

By: Paul Doherty

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father… read more

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Cover of The Richest Man in Town (Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #14) by Jason Vail

11. The Richest Man in Town (Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #14)

By: Jason Vail

4.44

Format: 0 pages, Kindle Edition

Harry Carver, the legless artisan, and his wife Joan find the corpse of the richest man in Ludlow i… read more

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12. A Curious Death (Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #12)

By: Jason Vail

4.47

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

The deputy constable of Oxford Castle, Miles de Dinesley, is found dead in a tub at a local bathhou… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of There was a Crooked Man (Stephen Attebrook Mystery #15) by Jason Vail

13. There was a Crooked Man (Stephen Attebrook Mystery #15)

By: Jason Vail

4.52

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

The corpse of one of medieval Ludlow’s tavern keepers, popular Red John Griffin, is found by the be… read more

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  • medieval
Cover of By Murder's Bright Light (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #5) by Paul  Harding

14. By Murder's Bright Light (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #5)

By: Paul Harding

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Scandal, murder and treason… Athelstan and Cranston are back with a bang. Winter, 1379. French pri… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of The d'Albiac Inheritance (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries #9) by J.G. Lewis

15. The d'Albiac Inheritance (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries #9)

By: J.G. Lewis

4.48

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Salisbury, 1231 A violent encounter at a tournament thrusts Ela into a tug of war over an ancient m… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Taste for Killing (Bradecote & Catchpoll, #10) by Sarah Hawkswood

16. A Taste for Killing (Bradecote & Catchpoll, #10)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.32

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

January, 1145. Godfrey Bowyer, the best but least likeable bow maker in Worcester, dies an agonisin… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Too Good to Hang (Bradecote & Catchpoll #11) by Sarah Hawkswood

17. Too Good to Hang (Bradecote & Catchpoll #11)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.53

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

April, 1145. Thorgar the Ploughman is found by the bloodied body of Father Edmund, a village priest… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The House of Crows (The Brother Athelstan Mysteries #6)

By: Paul Harding

4.35

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murderer, a house of assassins, a devil incarnate...It’s the Spring of 1380 and the Regent… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of Suppression and Suspicion (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #15) by Melvin R. Starr

19. Suppression and Suspicion (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #15)

By: Melvin R. Starr

4.21

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Delve into the world of fourteenth-century England in this thrilling historical mystery, the fiftee… read more

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  • historical
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20. Servant of Death (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation #1)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

3.96

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

The much-feared and hated Eudo - the Lord Bishop of Winchester's clerk - is bludgeoned to death in … read more

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Cover of Ordeal by Fire (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation, #2) by Sarah Hawkswood

21. Ordeal by Fire (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation, #2)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.23

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

September 1143. Sergeant Catchpoll hopes a fire at a Worcester silversmith's is just an accident, b… read more

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22. Faithful Unto Death (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation #6)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.39

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The characters and descriptions of medieval life are thoroughly engaging … A page-turner’ Mystery … read more

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  • mystery
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  • historical fiction
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23. Men of Bone (Thomas Berrington Tudor Mystery #1)

By: David Penny

4.44

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

1501: London, England Can a man turn his back on all hope to protect those he loves? Returnin… read more

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  • mystery
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Cover of The Eyes of the Dying (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #12) by Joyce Lionarons

24. The Eyes of the Dying (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #12)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.54

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

When two orphaned children go missing from Saint Leonard's Hospital, Cordwainer is barred from inve… read more

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Cover of River of Sins (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation #7) by Sarah Hawkswood

25. River of Sins (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation #7)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.42

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

July 1144. Ricolde, ‘the finest whore in Worcester’, is found butchered on an island a few miles up… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of Cathedral of Bones (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #1) by J.G. Lewis

26. Cathedral of Bones (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #1)

By: J.G. Lewis

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Salisbury, 1226 A young pregnant woman is found tangled in reeds in the river Avon, her identity a … read more

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27. The Troubadour's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #5)

By: Ann Swinfen

4.35

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

When Nicholas Elyot and his friends set out to spend the Christmas season in the country, they are … read more

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  • mystery
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28. The Lost Child (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #3)

By: J.G. Lewis

4.33

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Salisbury 1226When a child of village outcasts disappears from Salisbury, the odious new sheriff do… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
Cover of Breach of Faith (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #2) by J.G. Lewis

29. Breach of Faith (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #2)

By: J.G. Lewis

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Salisbury, 1226 A mysterious poacher claims to be a long-lost heir—to a man found crushed by his ow… read more

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Cover of Vale of Tears (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation, #5) by Sarah Hawkswood

30. Vale of Tears (A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation, #5)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Hawkswood leaves the reader guessing to the well-written end’ Historical Novels ReviewApril 1144. … read more

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Cover of The King's Ditch (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #6) by Joyce Lionarons

31. The King's Ditch (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #6)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.42

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

A young noblewoman flees her father's manor to avoid an unwanted marriage, and Cordwainer is faced … read more

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  • mystery
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22 Best fiction books like The Troubadour's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #5) by Ann Swinfen

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Crowner Royal (Crowner John Mystery, #13)

Bernard Knight

4.10

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Paul Doherty , Paul Harding

4.32

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The Weaver's Tale (Roger the Chapman, #3)

Kate Sedley

4.05

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A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew, #1)

Susanna Gregory

3.00

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4.32

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Candace Robb

4.04

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4.36

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Sarah Hawkswood

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