Jeri Westerson Books in Order

This historical novel follows people of the stage as ambition, performance, and danger begin to overlap. Behind the playacting is a struggle to survive in a world that can turn quickly.

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.

A short, tense tale of pursuit and reckoning, where the search for Elijah pulls buried trouble back into the open. Westerson keeps the stakes personal and close.

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.

This historical short story centers on a young working girl whose daily life is shaped by larger forces around her. It is brief, human, and quietly haunting.

An ordinary little tin box becomes the center of a compact mystery with outsized consequences. Westerson builds the story around the secrets people hide in plain sight.

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.

This historical novel turns on friendship, love, and conscience under pressure. Private loyalties and public danger keep pushing the characters toward hard choices.

Isabella Launder enters a nunnery to escape heartbreak, only to face a country being remade by Henry VIII's break with Rome. Faith, duty, and old love collide as the monasteries fall.

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.

After moving to rural Maine, Kylie Strange finds a supernatural book hidden in the wall of her tea shop. Murder, misfit Wiccans, and the demon Erasmus Dark turn her fresh start upside down.

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.

Kylie Strange is still dealing with the ancient Booke when old family secrets, rival magic, and an angry god close in. Her past catches up fast, and Moody Bog pays the price.

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.

Santa turns detective after one of his flying reindeer is murdered in the seedy underbelly of Christmas Town. It is a playful noir send-up, with dirty snow, shady suspects, and a very different North Pole.

Kylie Strange and her coven face stalking creatures, supernatural assassins, and the return of enemies who want the Booke. Moody Bog keeps getting stranger, and the body count keeps rising.

In an alternate 1891 London, magician Leopold Kazsmer investigates grisly murders that look like the Ripper's work. Daemons, secret science, and a perilous new inspector complicate every clue.

With Halloween closing in, Kylie has one last chance to stop the havoc surrounding the Booke of the Hidden. A deadly mission and hard choices push the series toward its final showdown.

Leopold hunts a killer called the Clockwork Gypsy while darker forces gather around London's railways and goblin power. The case mixes murder, strange machinery, and rising magical danger.

Back in Huntington Beach, surfer and tea-shop owner Jeff Chase is trying to manage one awkward problem: being a werewolf. A rash of murder, pack politics, and Voodoo magic make normal life impossible.

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.

Jeff Chase is still learning how to live as a werewolf when another newly changed wolf is found dead on the beach. To solve it, he has to work with uneasy allies before a bigger threat hits Huntington Beach.

Leopold Kazsmer and his odd band of allies journey into a shifting library between worlds to save his father and break a terrible pact. If they fail, Gehenna may spill into London.

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.

Oswald of Harlech is a tinker, a thief, and a born schemer, until he is blackmailed into stealing the Crown Jewels. This medieval caper plays like a heist with mud, wit, and gallows stakes.

Henry VIII's jester Will Somers is drawn into murder after a Spanish diplomat he knows too well turns up dead. Court gossip, blackmail, and royal secrets make every step dangerous.

Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger and his partner Ben Watson investigate a murder committed during a séance. Their first big case tests their skills, their nerve, and Sherlock Holmes's faith in them.

Hired to guard a mummy unveiling, Tim and Ben instead find their host dead inside the sarcophagus. The case leads from fashionable drawing rooms to stolen artifacts and older secrets.

Will Somers is summoned by Queen Anne Boleyn after a corpse appears in her rooms. Smuggling the body away is only the start of a court mystery shadowed by Henry's shifting affections.

A servant to Queen Jane is murdered, then exhumed and mutilated, forcing Will Somers back into dangerous court business. Unrest in the kingdom makes the investigation even touchier.

When Dr. Watson is kidnapped, Tim Badger and Ben Watson have to work without Holmes at their elbow. A ransom demand sends them into their most personal case yet.

As Henry VIII prepares to marry Anne of Cleves, Will Somers gets tangled in a murder tied to a German maid of honor with a secret. A body that keeps disappearing turns the case farcical and dangerous.

Tim and Ben are hired by a strange gentleman whose neighbors think he is a vampire. When the client turns up dead, the detectives have to separate village superstition from all too human murder.