Kate Sedley Books in Order

Henry Tudor wins a crown but not an easy peace. This novel follows his marriage to Elizabeth of York as love, suspicion, and the shadow of the missing princes shape the birth of the Tudor dynasty.

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, becomes the great broker of the Wars of the Roses. Ambition, shifting loyalties, and family strategy turn his rise into a struggle that can reshape the realm.

This historical novel follows Henry V as he grows from hot-blooded prince into a driven king. War in France brings glory, but power tests his loyalties and hardens every personal bond.

With Henry V dead and an infant king on the throne, John, Duke of Bedford, must hold together a fractured inheritance. War in France, unrest at home, and court rivalry close in on him.

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, is loved by the people but surrounded by enemies at court. Accusations, rivalries, and personal losses steadily pull both him and the kingdom toward crisis.

Edward II's reign is pulled off course by favorites, faction, and the king's own weaknesses. Royal intimacy and political resentment combine into a portrait of a crown under siege.

After Edward II's collapse, Isabella and Roger Mortimer rise to power together. Their triumph is shadowed by ambition, scandal, and the growing hatred that makes their hold on England dangerously fragile.

A young Edward III steps out from the shadow of his mother and Mortimer and begins claiming power for himself. War, vengeance, and the burden of rule shape the making of a king.

Edward III's middle years bring triumph, plague, and dynastic pressure. At the center are his sons, especially the Black Prince, as family hopes, scandal, and politics crowd the royal household.

As Edward III ages, government slips toward his heirs and favorites. John of Gaunt, Katherine Swynford, and growing unrest turn court life into a struggle over love, influence, and England's future.

Richard II inherits a troubled kingdom as a boy and grows up under the pressure of revolt, favorites, and noble resentment. Court life is glittering, but every alliance carries danger.

This novel looks past Shakespeare to the historical Macbeth, a warrior ruler fighting to secure and keep the Scottish crown. Clan loyalties, battle, and ambition drive the story.

Richard II tries to rule on his own terms, but pride, favoritism, and old grudges push him toward isolation. What begins as kingship becomes a fight to hold power and survive betrayal.

Emma of Normandy must survive marriage, widowhood, and brutal succession politics in early medieval England. Intelligence, patience, and resolve are her best defenses in a court where dynasties can fall overnight.

A historical drama of loyalty under pressure, this novel follows lives shaped by war, duty, and the pull of the crown. Private attachments and public choices collide as power demands its price.

Harold Godwinson rises to the center of English power in a kingdom crowded with rival claims and hard choices. His path leads toward 1066, where personal duty and national fate meet head-on.

Newly free of monastic life, Roger the Chapman is asked to find a Bristol alderman's missing son in London. The search becomes his first full brush with murder, politics, and the dangerous uses of curiosity.

Roger is ordered to protect a royal messenger carrying an urgent dispatch toward Plymouth. When the man is murdered with Roger's own cudgel, Roger must clear himself and finish the mission.

Struck down by illness in Bristol, Roger is nursed by a widow and her daughter, then drawn into their family mystery. A man was hanged for murder, yet the supposed victim later walked back into town.

Outlaws are terrorizing the countryside around Totnes, and two children have disappeared without anyone seeing them leave home. Roger cannot let the mystery rest, especially once it turns darker than anyone feared.

Roger comes to London hoping for rest, then stumbles over a dead spy and a plot against Richard of Gloucester. To stop the conspiracy, he must work fast in a city full of rumor and divided loyalties.

Winter weather traps Roger at an isolated manor where fear, gossip, and unhappy attachments are already running high. When death strikes, the snowbound household becomes a closed circle of suspects.

Roger escorts a young bride to Glastonbury, only to find her intended husband has vanished. Manuscripts, rumor, and local legend turn the search into a strange and dangerous puzzle.

A wealthy Bristol weaver welcomes home the son long thought dead, but his daughter is sure the young man is an impostor. Roger's search for the truth leads from family grief to a carefully built deception.

Recently remarried Roger feels the road calling again and heads for Plymouth, where an old tradesman has been murdered. Superstition says the chief suspect vanished through the magic of Saint John's fern, Roger looks for a human answer.

Richard of Gloucester needs Roger to clear Isolda Bonifant, a goldsmith's daughter accused of poisoning her husband. The case looks domestic at first, but its outcome could shift loyalties at the center of power.

A Bristol baker is found stabbed just before Lammas, and suspicion quickly falls on a mysterious Breton stranger. Roger suspects the murder charge may be covering something larger, and soon his own family is at risk.

Heading home in the winter of 1478, Roger pauses in a village haunted by the disappearance of a young woman. The longer he stays, the more he finds old scandals, fresh lies, and danger close at hand.

Roger laughs off ghost stories until he is attacked in a house tied to an old killing. With the whole town denying what happened, he must decide whether someone is lying to him, or he is losing his senses.

Trouble at home gives Roger little reason to refuse a summons to London. There he must solve the murder of a favored attendant's son during the Duchess of Burgundy's high-profile visit to court.

Roger's newly discovered half-brother is accused of an old theft and murder, sending Roger to a Somerset manor in search of the truth. Then a long-missing heir returns and is promptly killed.

When the remains of a woman missing for twenty years are found on nunnery land, Roger must trace the three secret lovers she left behind. The case is cold, but the old passions around it are not.

Roger is swept into the 1482 invasion of Scotland when the Duke of Albany insists on having him nearby. Strange Green Man rumors, political intrigue, and murder make the march north more dangerous than battle.

Roger is ordered on an undercover mission to Paris, posing as the husband of the difficult Eloise Gray. What begins as intelligence work soon turns into a deadly tangle of diplomacy, deception, and murder.

Called to London after scandal rocks his home, Roger looks into a family's string of deaths, poisoning, and disappearance. The case opens onto hidden grudges and dangerous secrets at a tense political moment.

As Richard of Gloucester moves toward the English crown in 1483, Roger is sent to investigate a missing boy and a tutor found murdered in a locked room. Old legend and present danger prove tightly linked.

On an errand to Hereford during Buckingham's rebellion, Roger takes refuge at Tintern Abbey and hears of an old hiding place. Back in Bristol, murder and robberies reveal that the past has not stayed buried.

Christmas 1483 should bring Roger Chapman nothing more dangerous than feasting and mummers in Bristol. Instead, the murders of two respected old soldiers drag him into another bitter, risky hunt for a killer.