Ashmole Foxe Books in Order

The murder of a master weaver threatens to unsettle Norwich's textile trade and expose a failing business. Bookseller Ashmole Foxe investigates a mysterious cloth purchase and the concealed dealings behind a death with consequences for the city's economy.

A merchant banker's strangled body turns up aboard a wherry, carrying a smell of brandy his reputation cannot explain. Ashmole Foxe investigates connections between Norwich's wealthy merchants and its poorest streets before financial panic compounds the damage.

An undertaker's death in a church bell tower leads Ashmole Foxe into a troubled household. A woodcarver's imprisonment, puzzling carved panels, and apparently pointless burglaries suggest that understanding the family's past matters as much as reconstructing the killing.

A merchant dies at a crowded masquerade while an actor's murder revives memories of a long-dead actress. Ashmole Foxe reluctantly investigates both cases, tracing concealed relationships and old resentments behind two seemingly baffling deaths in Georgian Norwich.

A banker's disappearance becomes a murder investigation when his wife is found strangled. Ashmole Foxe must locate the missing man, uncover an unnoticed financial theft, and challenge powerful enemies before Norwich's mercantile community descends into panic.

Three murders draw Ashmole Foxe across Norwich's rigid social divisions, from an aristocratic gathering to a vagrant's sleeping place. Discovering what connects such different victims requires him to look beneath respectable appearances and the city's displays of wealth.

The murder of a privileged young priest demands Ashmole Foxe's attention, but a woman's body in a supposedly haunted house creates another mystery. Managing both inquiries grows harder as romantic complications threaten to overwhelm his already unsettled life.

Two weeks after their wedding, Foxe and Lucy investigate a respected merchant's brutal death beside the River Wensum. His wife's behavior, unusual finances, and complicated will reveal contradictions that make identifying who hated him increasingly difficult.

Norwich's missing mayor gives Ashmole Foxe an urgent assignment, but an unexpected romantic encounter distracts him. Returning to the search means untangling an increasingly troubling sequence of events while his own prospects for happiness hang in the balance.

A clergyman is found battered to death near Norwich Cathedral, with only his walking cane missing. Ashmole Foxe investigates why a country parson dressed like a bishop inspired such fear among the city's street children and hatred in his killer.