Margaret Frazer Books in Order

The arrival of the blaspheming dowager Lady Ermentrude shatters the quiet of St. Frideswide. When she dies suddenly, novice Thomasine is at risk and Frevisse starts picking apart a careful trap.

A winter stay in Prior Byfield exposes Frevisse to the hard lives of servants, villagers, and a traveling company of players. Poverty, grievance, and fear gather until death makes the trouble impossible to ignore.

At Thomas Chaucer's mourning feast, a hated man dies after a shocking last cry. Frevisse and Bishop Beaufort suspect that God's judgment had help from a very human killer.

Violence on St. Frideswide's borders brings fear, blame, and the shadow of an outlaw into the priory's world. Frevisse has to sort rumor from truth before anger leads to more killing.

A desperate noblewoman reaches St. Frideswide with two small boys and a plea for sanctuary. With deaths behind them and scandal close ahead, Frevisse has to learn what kind of danger she has admitted.

Hoping for a peaceful pilgrimage, Frevisse instead joins a troubled household led by a man believed possessed. At Minster Lovell, jealousy, resentment, and a blackened heart lead her toward murder.

St. Frideswide should be a refuge, but power struggles and private grievances make it anything but safe. Frevisse has to navigate the priory's tensions when ambition and murder begin to overlap.

To save St. Frideswide from ruin, Frevisse goes to London seeking help and a new prioress. There she is pulled into her cousin Alice's political world, where secret messages and murder travel together.

Prior Byfield is hungry, plague-struck, and full of quarrels, and reeve Simon Perryn is near breaking. When Frevisse arrives to help set village matters right, scandal and murder are close behind.

What begins as a family story of illness, inheritance, and uneasy hopes slowly darkens into murder. Frevisse must read the tensions inside a country household before grief hardens into something worse.

Master John Gruesby likes quiet work, neat papers, and staying out of trouble. But records, property, and murder pull him into a case where Frevisse sees how easily ink and secrecy can ruin lives.

Frevisse is drawn into the orbit of a gifted bastard son whose future depends on dangerous noble loyalties. When violence breaks out, family ambition and national politics become hard to separate.

In Oxford in 1434, Joliffe and his fellow players wait to perform for Corpus Christi while working for a wealthy merchant. When a man is found murdered outside their lodging, Joliffe has to read the household's hidden past.

Sir Ralph Woderove's murder troubles nobody, but the quarrels he leaves behind soon claim another life. Escorting his widow and daughter home, Frevisse finds a household built on bitterness and buried truths.

Joliffe's troupe is sent to perform at a wedding, but he has a second role to play, spy. A dead former suitor and the Deneby family's buried scandals make the celebration feel doomed from the start.

Widow Cristiana Helyngton has been shut away while her husband's kin try to seize her lands and children. Frevisse becomes part of a desperate fight built on secrets, power, and the threat of treason.

In the village of Ashewell, three wealthy families are knotted together by rivalry, seduction, and blackmail. As the players perform, Joliffe finds murder waiting behind the local feuds.

In London, Frevisse works with seamstress Anne Blakehall to move hidden gold for Lady Alice. Their dangerous errand is thrown into chaos when a shocking corpse stirs anti-Jewish hatred across the city.

In London, Joliffe and his players are told to entertain the great and quietly listen to them as well. Court rivalry around young Henry VI turns lethal when men who know too much start dying.

A runaway nun and a house full of old anger unsettle life at St. Frideswide's. Frevisse must deal with broken vows, lies, and a death that exposes deep hurts within the cloister.

Called to London after the fall of the Duke of Suffolk, Frevisse is caught up in missing men, secret messages, and politically charged killings. England's losses in France shadow every step of the case.

Sent to Rouen as both servant and trainee spy, Joliffe enters the household of the newly widowed Jacquetta of Bedford. War, divided loyalties, and a murder inside the walls make every secret dangerous.

While his troupe leader heals from a bad fall, Joliffe takes work in a medieval hospital. Complaints, rivalries, and a string of suspicious deaths turn a place of care into a deadly puzzle.

Set against royal power struggles, this award-winning tale follows a killing into a world where mercy is scarce and ambition weighs more than affection. Frazer keeps the history sharp and the emotions colder still.

This Shakespeare-inspired mystery turns performance into a snare. As stagecraft and deception mirror each other, a clever observer uses theater itself to draw hidden guilt into the open.

Set amid medieval Egypt, this story follows memory and blood through Alexandria, the Nile, and the ruins of older worlds. It is a historical mystery with a wider, stranger horizon than Frazer's English tales.

After Cisily Fisher dies in childbirth, Prior Byfield is gripped by fear and suspicion. Frevisse follows the pain left in the village to the bitter human cause beneath it.

As tension grows around the Duke of York, Bishop Pecock uses reason instead of rumor to test a dangerous accusation. The case turns private suspicion into a matter with national stakes.

Rumors of witchcraft unsettle the village near St. Frideswide, where charms and healing are easy to fear. Frevisse has to separate superstition from malice before accusation turns deadly.

A quiet murder without blood or body opens into a dark tale of Queen Margaret, the Duke of Gloucester, and witchcraft at court. Built from Shakespeare's Henry VI, it ties private malice to the fate of kingdoms.

Starring Bishop Beaufort, this story turns on words, vows, and the uses of church power. Frazer takes a seemingly formal matter and finds the human danger hiding inside it.

During Coventry's Corpus Christi plays, Joliffe is drawn into a missing merchant case that touches the town's elite. With his fellow players under suspicion, he has to untangle politics, religion, and murder fast.

When Dick Colop doubts that a street killing was only a tavern brawl, he takes the problem to the scholar-priest Reynold Pecock. Their search through London leads toward heresy, reason, and murder.

A woman's fall looks accidental until a boy notices a burned-down candle and other small wrongnesses. Master Pecock follows the clues into a tightly wound domestic mystery at Whittington's Almshouse.

Frazer visits the world of Shakespeare's Richard II in an intimate story of a king near his end. As betrayal closes in, power feels fragile, lonely, and already half lost.

Visiting her cousin Alice at Ewelme, Frevisse is impressed by sculptor Simon Maye and the life he carves from stone. When he and a lady vanish, romance gives way to a darker mystery.

Now prioress, Frevisse faces fresh trouble near St. Frideswide when a missing young man may be paying for a crime he did not commit. The case brings winter cold, village anger, and quiet danger.

After her parents' deaths, young Damaris comes to the ancient manor of Thornoak hoping for safety and belonging. Instead she finds family secrets, old beliefs, and troubling questions about her mother's death.