Alys Clare
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A Hawkenlye medieval mystery - May 1199. Abbess Helewise has been summoned by Queen Eleanor to discuss the building of a chapel at Hawkenlye Abbey. Meanwhile, Sir Josse d'Acquin is on the trail of a group of mysterious knights rumoured to be devil worshippers. As Helewise heads for home, Josse follows his quarry to Chartres, where he meets the last person he expects: Joanna. And she has grave problems of her own . . .
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Aelf Fen volume 5
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English
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Apprentice healer Lassair learns that a distant relative was brutally murdered by a red-bearded giant in search of an unidentified object he was unable to locate, a situation that puts her entire family at risk.
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Hawkenlye mysteries volume 11
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English
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Late autumn, 1196. A stranger arrives at New Winnowlands but disappears. A body is found in the forest, and three Knights Hospitallers arrive on the trail of a runaway monk. Josse realizes the mysterious guest brought a terrible secret- and danger.
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"London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be less perilous than a trip to a girls' boarding school,...
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In the autumn of 1210, Abbess Caliste is concerned about the welfare of her nuns at Hawkenlye Abbey after King John's men have taken it over, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Mannor with Josse, and Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing.
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Hawkenlye mystery volume 5
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New English Library
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2003
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English
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"An elderly pilgrim dies in Hawkenlye Vale. There's nothing suspicious about that: he was gravely ill when he arrived. Meanwhile Josse d'Acquin has a visit from Prince John, accompanied by his seer, and urgently seeking news of a mysterious stranger..." - Cover p. [4].
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Hawkenlye mysteries volume 1
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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2000
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English
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In the wake of a young nun's death in 1157 rural Kent, soldier-of-fortune Josse d'Acquin sets out to protect the reputation of the king, who had released the prime suspect, and is aided by the Abbess of Hawkenlye in uncovering secrets surrounding the convent.
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Hawkenlye mysteries volume 3
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
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English
16) Heart of ice
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2006
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English
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January, 1194. A very sick man is making his way to Hawkenlye Abbey to take the Holy Water cure. In his delirium, the Virgin Mary appears before him?a seeming recurrence of the miraculous sighting that led to the establishment of the Abbey. As he watches the beautiful woman approach, he begins to pray. But she strikes him with a club, then rolls him into a ditch. Winter becomes increasingly bitter. It is only when the thaw comes that the corpse is...
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Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner has to face his greatest challenge yet - a serious danger from the East threatens not just his life, but everyone he loves! All aboard this adventurous historical mystery set in the early seventeenth century.
March, 1605. Country doctor and former ship surgeon Gabriel Taverner is ready for his next adventure. Since he discovered that his injury from years ago doesn't affect his nautical suitability anymore, he...
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February, 1212. Sir Josse d'Acquin and Helewise are summoned to Southfire Hall, where Josse's elderly uncle, Hugh, lies dying, surrounded by his children. But the pair soon discovers that Hugh's ill health is not the only cause of distress in the house: for Hugh's son and heir, Herbert, has taken an unpleasant new wife, the widowed Lady Cyrille. Josse and Helewise are distracted by the discovery of an injured young man on the road outside on the evening...
19) The Lammas Wild
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Healer Lassair returns to England and uncovers a secret that puts the lives of everyone she knows in grave danger, in the final Aelf Fen medieval mystery.
It is the summer of 1100, and after seven long years away in Spain, Lassair is finally going home. Back to her beloved mentor Gurdyman. Back to her family. And back to young lawman Jack Chevestrier, who Lassair hopes still carries the same deep feelings for her as she does for him.
Before...
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Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected peril When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge one morning, set on by an angry mob, she assumes involvement with her will be brief. She has no idea that the woman, alone but for her infant child, brings both mystery and peril. Then a devastating flood hits the fens, and among the wreckage and debris washed up at Aelf Fen is a body;...