Joyce Lionarons Books in Order

A Jewish moneylender's murder lands Matthew Cordwainer in the middle of rising tension between Christians and Jews in York. Arrest the wrong man, and the city could tip into riot.

A young stonemason is stabbed in Saint Martin's Church just as York prepares for the Corpus Christi plays. Matthew Cordwainer has to decide whether the answer lies with the dead man's wife or with rivals among the city's stone carvers.

Someone is killing York shopkeepers one by one, and Matthew Cordwainer is left to manage the case with too little help. The hunt forces him to balance failing strength against stubborn resolve.

King's coroner Matthew Cordwainer investigates the strangling deaths of three prostitutes in thirteenth-century York. With the sheriff chasing the wrong suspect and another woman in danger, Matthew has to move fast despite age and pain.

A young noblewoman flees her father's manor, and the aftermath brings Matthew Cordwainer into another tangled inquiry. Outside the city walls, family power and private violence prove just as dangerous as York itself.

When a noblewoman is found poisoned, Matthew Cordwainer is drawn into a case shaped by rank, gossip, and old resentments. In York, private spite can turn deadly very quickly.

A page is murdered at King Henry's feast, and swordmaster Gavin Rownt is pushed into finding the killer. At the same time, child thieves are unsettling his neighborhood, and the city's underworld keeps making the case worse.

A stolen relic, a stabbed traveler, and two savage farmhouse murders seem unrelated at first. Matthew Cordwainer has to find the link while Thomas starts thinking about a life beyond his service.

Three boys at play become the starting point for a darker mystery in medieval York. Matthew Cordwainer has to look past childish mischief to the adult violence hiding behind it.

Gavin Rownt agrees to help an old friend and ends up guarding a noble family from its unstable patriarch in a remote castle. As servants and secrets pile up, the job turns into a dangerous locked-in mystery.

The death of a wealthy York merchant opens a case full of money, family strain, and competing stories. Matthew Cordwainer has to sort through the claims before another life is broken.

A woman's murder in a village outside York sends Matthew Cordwainer into a case that refuses to stay simple. Local loyalties, hidden motives, and the limits of official power all get in his way.

When two of the Archbishop of York's messengers are attacked, Matthew Cordwainer is drawn into a case that reaches beyond ordinary city quarrels. What looks simple at first keeps widening, with danger and divided loyalties waiting underneath.

A priest is left mutilated in his church and a prostitute is murdered in Southwark. Gavin Rownt and Graeme Ore chase two brutal cases that may be separate, or may be pointing to the same hidden hand.

When a lady-in-waiting to Queen Eleanor is found murdered, Gavin Rownt is pulled into a case shaped by court ties, secrecy, and status. The farther he digs, the more dangerous those connections become.

In 1251 London, five artisans meet to talk, argue, and share news, until their small fellowship is shaken by deadly trouble. Gavin Rownt has to read working-class loyalties and grudges as carefully as any noble plot.

A weaver's family is murdered in their beds, then a beggar is killed by Bootham Bar. Matthew Cordwainer begins to suspect someone is trying to rid York of its poor, and the evidence points somewhere shocking.

Two orphaned children vanish from Saint Leonard's Hospital, and a murdered anchoress soon gives Matthew Cordwainer another thread to follow. As the cases tighten around him, the answers seem to reach back into his own past.

A nobleman is murdered at Saint Mary's Abbey while a tavern maid dies from poisoned sweets. Matthew Cordwainer ends up juggling three killings at once, with help from Hugh Porrock and Berta Northgate.

A wealthy merchant is found dead in London, and Gavin Rownt works with Graeme Ore to uncover both killer and thief. Meanwhile, trouble at home grows as a hostile new neighbor threatens Joshua and his family.

A run of church thefts pulls Gavin Rownt into a case where piety, profit, and violence keep crossing paths. What starts as robbery soon looks more dangerous, and much harder to untangle.

A young carpenter is stabbed after a harvest festival, giving Matthew Cordwainer too many suspects and no easy answer. As he investigates, he teaches Hugh and recalls an older case involving two murdered sisters.

A knight's robbery draws Gavin Rownt into a case built on broken trust. As he follows the trail through London, loyalty, greed, and private grievances keep shifting the shape of the crime.

While York wrestles with theft and household troubles, Matthew Cordwainer investigates the murders of a healing woman and her grandmother. With few clear suspects, he fears the truth will arrive too late to protect someone he loves.

After Matthew Cordwainer falls seriously ill during an investigation, twelve-year-old Hugh takes up the case himself. The deaths of a man and his children raise terrifying rumors of demonic possession, and Hugh has to face the danger alone.

An old troupe of actors returns to London, and Gavin Rownt is asked to find a missing child performer. The search leads into old scandals, fresh betrayals, and the unsettling question of who the boy really is.

When a young leather craftsman's body is pulled from the Thames, the coroner calls it suicide. Gavin Rownt is not convinced, and his search for proof leads toward a powerful merchant, a missing wife, and real danger.

A priest is found stabbed in his churchyard, and three sisters in the parish seem more interested in stripping the church than helping the inquiry. Matthew Cordwainer has to decide whether they are thieves, murderers, or both.

Set in York during Whitsun, this later Cordwainer mystery throws Matthew into another knot of rumor, suspicion, and sudden death. The festival bustle only makes it harder to see who is telling the truth.

After Martha Holbrok is sentenced to hang for attacking Agytha, someone starts murdering the King's Justices of the Eyre Court. Moira, Roger, and Jason begin hunting the killer themselves, with danger on every side.