Ian Morson Books in Order

Young student Thomas Symon discovers a murdered girl and is mistaken for her killer. His tutor William Falconer protects him from an Oxford mob, then investigates a widening series of deaths amid political unrest in medieval England.

A protest against Church greed ends with a bishop's brother killed by an arrow. When an imprisoned student suspect is found dead, William Falconer and constable Peter Bullock investigate a conspiracy extending beyond Oxford's walls.

A troupe of performers arrives in Oxford after a staged murder elsewhere turns real. When another actor is killed during a performance, William Falconer must uncover why the players are being targeted before their Christmas finale.

Traveling to Furness Abbey, William Falconer sees monks recover a skeleton from quicksand. The remains belong to a brother missing for fifteen years, and fresh violence suggests someone will kill again to keep the abbey's secret buried.

A Tartar delegation arrives in Oxford seeking an audience with King Henry. After its leader and a friar are murdered, William Falconer questions the apparent evidence of ritual violence and investigates rivalries surrounding the troubled diplomatic mission.

Down on his luck in Crimea, Venetian entrepreneur Nick Zuliani accepts work as Friar Alberoni's bodyguard on a journey to Xanadu. At Kublai Khan's court, the murder of the friar's intended contact draws Nick into danger.

A headless skeleton uncovered beneath an Oxford building appears connected to a Templar's disappearance twenty years earlier. William Falconer's inquiry becomes urgent when a man involved in the discovery is murdered, suggesting the old killer remains nearby.

Accused of poisoning former lover Ann Segrim, William Falconer faces a murder trial. Constable Peter Bullock and student Thomas Symon must investigate connections to suspicious deaths at a nunnery before their friend's methods fail to save him.

Nick Zuliani and Lin Chu-Tsai investigate a woman condemned for poisoning her prospective father-in-law in Mongol-ruled China. Doubts about her confession lead them into a politically dangerous case that could make powerful officials their enemies.

In Paris, William Falconer is summoned to investigate an attack on King Edward and suspicious deaths within the royal family. Additional killings suggest witnesses are being silenced, complicating his search through the city's institutions and royal circle.

With Oxford quarantined by smallpox, William Falconer investigates the destruction of supposedly blasphemous books. Scholars then begin dying in ways that echo Merlin's prophecies, forcing him to pursue a killer amid disease, scarcity and mounting superstition.