Domesday Books in Order

In 1086, Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive in Bedwyn to examine disputed land claims. When the miller involved is found apparently savaged by a wolf, the king's investigators must also look into his violent death.

Royal commissioners Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive to examine disputed landholdings near Maldon, where a powerful lord's heir has been murdered. Their inquiry into ownership becomes a search for a killer amid a family's secrets and local grievances.

A witness in a disputed land claim dies when his home burns on the Welsh border. Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret investigate the killing, following a dragon emblem into conflicts between rival lords and the people living under their authority.

Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret reach York to investigate contested landholdings, only to encounter a death at a castle feast. The royal commissioners must establish why an unexpected intruder entered the gathering while navigating tensions between Norman rulers and Saxon inhabitants.

A young woman who carries herbs to a leper hospital near Canterbury is found dead, apparently killed by a snake. Royal commissioners Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret investigate as their work on land disputes brings them into conflict with church interests.

A horse race ends with the winning animal returning without its rider, who has been stabbed to death. Investigating land claims around Oxford, Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret must also examine a murder for which a Saxon stands accused.

An arrow kills Earl Hugh's prized hawk, but the accused poachers deny shooting it. Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret's work in Cheshire draws them into conflicts involving church authority, a captive Welsh prince, and violence extending beyond the hunting grounds.

Nicholas Picard's death resembles a wildcat attack, yet wounds suggest a human killer. Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret investigate in Devon, where competing claims involving three women complicate the fate of his estate and the search for his murderer.

A hunt in Warwickshire uncovers the crushed body of reeve Martin Reynard, and suspicion falls on a formidable blacksmith. Royal commissioners Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret must untangle the killing while conducting their inquiry into disputed local landholdings.

Two golden elephants purchased as a marriage gift vanish, and the steward entrusted with them disappears too. Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret's assignment in Norwich expands from investigating land claims to tracing the missing property and the man responsible for it.

A monk disappears while collecting rents, and the discovery of his body unsettles Gloucester's abbey. Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive on royal business involving landholdings, but must now confront suspicion within a religious community shaken by murder.