Joan & Matthew Stock Books in Order

A young actor is found brutally murdered after his traveling troupe performs for local nobility. Clothier and county constable Matthew Stock investigates with his wife Joan, following clues through Elizabethan inns and estates while witnesses face mounting danger.

Matthew Stock investigates when his young relation disappears from a London jeweler's apprenticeship. Meanwhile, the boy returns to Joan with evidence of blackmail at court, forcing her to warn Matthew before his questions expose him to deadly danger.

A sudden death and reports of a young woman's ghost ignite witch-hunting hysteria in Chelmsford. Constable Matthew Stock and his wife Joan investigate the accusations, hoping to uncover the human secrets behind events threatening three alleged witches.

Matthew and Joan Stock visit London's Bartholomew Fair, where a mutilated body near a bear-baiting arena draws them into an investigation. Further violence exposes dangers extending beyond the fairground toward the visiting Queen Elizabeth herself.

Matthew and Joan Stock investigate Sir John Challoner's suspicious death at a hostile Elizabethan estate. Uncooperative servants, threatening neighbors, and another victim hidden in their room complicate their search as sinister rumors surround the castle and its inhabitants.

Deaths among London law students appear to be suicides, but Matthew Stock suspects murder and takes rooms in the Middle Temple. Joan investigates connections to a dangerous tavern while the couple risks becoming the killer's next targets.

As political and religious factions maneuver around the dying Queen Elizabeth, Matthew Stock becomes entangled in a plot against Robert Cecil. Framed for murder with his own knife, he depends on Joan's investigation to escape the gallows.

After a farmer and his family are murdered, suspicion falls on an Inuit servant and his deaf friend. Matthew and Joan Stock protect the accused while investigating the crime amid mounting prejudice and demands for immediate revenge.