Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Books in Order

Fresh from his fall from grace, Crispin takes a shabby domestic job and stumbles into locked-room murder. A dead merchant, a faith-stained relic, and London's suspicion force him to become a detective.

A tavern girl begs Crispin to clear her name after a royal courier is found dead in her room. The victim carried the Crown of Thorns, and the murder could tip England toward war.

Crispin takes on a murder tied to a dangerous manuscript and finds himself deep in London's religious tensions. The deeper he digs, the more the case threatens both Jack and his fragile standing.

Threats against the relics of Thomas Becket send Crispin to Canterbury, where pilgrims, priests, and Geoffrey Chaucer crowd the road. Murder and heresy make the holy journey anything but peaceful.

After an armourer falls from London Bridge, Crispin suspects murder, not suicide. The trail points toward a missing relic linked to the spear that pierced Christ's side.

Nicholas Flamel's apprentice is murdered and his wife disappears, sending Crispin into a hunt for alchemical secrets. London's politics and a trail of riddles turn the search into a deadly game.

In this Crispin prequel, a dead Templar and rumors of the Holy Grail pull the disgraced knight into danger. It is also the story of how he first crosses paths with the young thief Jack Tucker.

After a drunken night, Crispin wakes to find the woman he tried to warn murdered beside him. To clear his name, he and Jack must outrun the sheriffs and uncover who set him up.

What starts as a search for a missing necklace turns into a locked-room killing for Crispin Guest. The closed chamber hides more than one secret, and Crispin has little time to untangle them.

When the Stone of Destiny disappears from Westminster Abbey, King Richard gives Crispin almost no time to recover it. With Jack's life at stake, he has to solve a theft buried under layers of deceit.

Two monks are murdered and a famed Holy Blood relic vanishes, putting Crispin between abbeys, courtiers, and a beautiful stranger. Church politics and royal intrigue make every answer more dangerous.

Reports of corpses walking from a churchyard draw Crispin into a case of superstition, murder, and a missing relic. What looks impossible turns into one of his most painful investigations.

Hired to help search for Excalibur, Crispin and Jack head to Cornwall expecting legend and finding murder instead. Arthurian myth, hidden motives, and a deadly treasure hunt keep them off balance.

A stranger leaves Crispin an ancient book he cannot read, and the puzzle leads him to the Gospel of Judas. Soon he and Jack are hunted by powerful men who want the dangerous text destroyed.

When builders uncover a skeleton hidden in a manor wall beside a missing relic, Crispin Guest and Jack Tucker are pulled into an old crime soaked in family grudges. The bones are old, but the danger is not.

A string of deaths at a priory seems staged around the seven deadly sins, and Crispin is hired to find the killer. As Henry Bolingbroke's return looms, the case grows personal as well as political.