Candace Robb Books in Order

York, 1363. When two men die after taking a physic from Nicholas Wilton's shop, one-eyed ex-archer Owen Archer goes undercover as the apothecary's apprentice, only to discover that Wilton's clever wife Lucie may hold both the crucial clues and the greatest risk.

After a young nun is buried in Beverley, a woman claiming to be her returns months later with a stolen relic and a year she refuses to explain. As Joanna Calverley's story unravels, Owen Archer and his wife Lucie must untangle murder, treason and dangerous visions.

On the night after York's Corpus Christi procession, a wealthy wool merchant is found with his throat cut on the minster steps and his severed hand left in another man's room. Owen Archer follows a trail of guild rivalries, missing witnesses and a mysterious cloaked woman.

King Edward's push to install William of Wykeham as Bishop of Winchester sends Owen Archer north with a diplomatic party that soon turns deadly. When his friend Ned Townley is blamed for a string of suspicious drownings and disappearances, Owen must prove his innocence before politics sacrifice him.

In plague-stricken York, a run of unexplained deaths at St Leonard's Hospital threatens scandal for its ambitious master. Drawn in despite himself, Owen Archer uncovers old grudges, hidden debts and a puzzle among the hospital's paying residents that may explain why they are dying.

Escorting a pilgrimage to St David's in 1369, Owen Archer is secretly charged with testing the loyalty of the Duke of Lancaster's steward in south Wales. A dead man in ducal livery and a violent household riven by theft and jealousy pull him into treachery and murder.

While Owen Archer finishes dangerous work for John of Gaunt in his native Wales, rebel leaders urge him to stay and fight for their cause. In York, Lucie Wilton struggles with slander against her apothecary and an alarming summons to her family home, as both husband and wife are drawn into plots that could tear them apart.

In the spring of 1297, merchant's wife Margaret Kerr grows desperate when her husband Roger fails to return from business in Dundee. After his cousin Jack is stabbed in occupied Edinburgh, Margaret rides into the war-torn city to search, only to find her family tavern steeped in secrets and loyalties that may have swallowed Roger whole.

When the remains of powerful knight Sir Ranulf Pagnell are brought home to York, his resentful kin blame Bishop Wykeham for his death. After a near-fatal accident and a fire that reveals a dead midwife in the bishop's house, Owen Archer must decide whether he is chasing arson, murder or both.

In war-scarred Edinburgh, Margaret Kerr helps run her uncle's tavern and quietly passes information to the Scots resisting English rule. After a series of violent raids on her family's strongboxes and a killing that lets the occupiers shut the tavern, she flees north with her husband Roger, only to suspect he has his own designs on her mother's prophetic gifts.

Late in 1297, Margaret Kerr travels to Stirling at the request of rebel leaders to learn what became of a young spy who vanished inside the English-held castle. As a decisive battle looms, her disturbing dreams and shifting alliances warn that betrayal may come from the very people calling themselves Scotland's saviours.

A winter brawl on York's riverside ends with a pilot pushed into the icy Ouse, but his wounds show he was attacked before he fell. As more bodies surface and a frightened schoolboy vanishes, Owen Archer and his adopted son Jasper follow a trail of theft, fire and family secrets.

With Archbishop John Thoresby gravely ill, York's great families are already scheming over his successor when the Princess of Wales arrives at his bedside. A courtier is murdered and a royal messenger found hanged, forcing Owen Archer to hunt a killer hidden among powerful guests before they can twist the church to their advantage.

At fourteen, obedient Alice Salisbury marries London merchant Janyn Perrers and briefly finds happiness, until royal intrigue tears him away and leaves her future in peril. Drawn into the household of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, Alice becomes the king's mistress and a shrewd businesswoman, struggling to safeguard her daughter amid gossip and relentless politics.

Joan of Kent, famed beauty and cousin to King Edward III, is promised in marriage to cement a royal alliance as England enters the Hundred Years War. Haunted by her father's execution, she secretly vows herself to a household knight instead and must defend that forbidden union against a furious king and a watching court.

Wise woman Magda Digby summons Owen Archer to her island hut on the River Ouse with an unsettling request. She wants him to guard a jar of human bones from ruthless relic dealers and a shadowy figure who seems willing to kill to claim it.

At the turn of the fifteenth century, young widow Kate Clifford is determined to secure her own future in turbulent York by turning a property near the minster into a profitable guest house. When a paying guest is found murdered and his companion disappears, Kate must protect her reputation and her unconventional household by uncovering the truth.

On the eve of Henry of Lancaster's challenge to King Richard, York fills with armed men and whispered plots. Kate Clifford already has her hands full with debt and young wards when her estranged mother appears, trailed by danger, and a violent attack on Eleanor's household drags Kate into secrets that may touch treason.

Deep in the winter of 1400, rumours of a failed rising against the new king swirl through York while Kate Clifford's trusted cook Berend vanishes without explanation. When he reappears injured and swiftly stands accused of murdering a spice merchant, Kate risks royal anger to trace a hoard of jewels and prove where his loyalties truly lie.

In 1374, the mutilated body of Hoban Swann is discovered in the forest outside York, his throat ripped and his hunting dogs missing. Rumours blame wolves, but Owen Archer suspects human hands, and as more violence follows he uncovers buried feuds, long memories and a perilous choice about his own future.

As York prepares to welcome a new archbishop, two corpses are found in the grounds of the minster and a golden-haired singer is discovered locked in the chapter house. Under pressure to keep scandal from the powerful Neville family, Owen Archer must link the dead men, the frightened youth and a returning figure from his past.

Returning to York in 1375, Owen Archer and his wife Lucie find the city terrified of plague and quick to blame healers like their friend Magda Digby. When a merchant's servant is pulled dead from the river and a fire strikes his warehouse, Owen must sift superstition, family quarrels and Magda's troubled kin to learn who is turning fear into murder.

In 1376, a stabbed stranger is found just beyond York's walls beside a cart of carved stones meant for a priory. As Owen Archer traces the shipment back to Bishop Wykeham and uncovers the hand of a treacherous archer from his past, threats close in on his wife and children.

When taverner Tom Merchet vanishes from York without a word, his wife Bess turns to their old friend Owen Archer for help. Following traces of a forgotten quarrel, a suspicious injury and gossip about a flirtatious widow, Owen uncovers buried secrets and a patient enemy determined to ruin Tom's hard-won life.

In 1377, a golden lion crafted by York's goldsmiths as a coronation gift for young King Richard disappears before it can leave the city. Tasked with recovering it, Owen Archer finds himself juggling angry guildsmen, rumours of foreign spies, a drowned man in the river and a brutal killing that point toward dangerously powerful patrons.