Leonard Tourney 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.

In 1603, William Shakespeare faces blackmail from a former lover shortly before she dies in a suspicious fire. Searching for whoever wants to disgrace him, he encounters court intrigue and further violence that threatens his reputation and freedom.

Nineteen-year-old William Shakespeare becomes trapped in Sir John Falstaff's household and forced to work as a gardener. After discovering his predecessor's corpse, he faces renewed peril when Falstaff is killed with a tool Shakespeare has been using.

William Shakespeare inherits a mysterious sacred book from conjurer John Dee, only to find its custodian dead. Pursuing the legacy draws him toward Dee's daughter, a secret fellowship, and a dangerous voyage to the Channel Islands.

In 1604 London, William Shakespeare welcomes old friend Gabriel Catesby into the King's Men. Catesby's connections open doors to influential households, but secret meetings and competing religious loyalties entangle the playwright in alliances dangerously close to treason.

Ambitious physician William Gilbert accepts a lucrative position caring for a wealthy man’s pregnant wife in Elizabethan England. When she is found dead and he becomes a suspect, his commitment to rational inquiry must help him expose the killer.

William Gilbert doubts the apparent explanation when a valued patient is discovered hanging from an unusually high beam. Joined by the dead man’s relative Johane Sheldon, he pursues answers while religious prejudice obstructs their investigation in sixteenth-century England.

After a family rescues him from an Essex snowstorm, physician William Gilbert learns that its women face execution for witchcraft. Determined to repay their kindness, he investigates accusations concealing a more human evil before innocent people die.