Mel Starr Books in Order

Kendrick Wroe's body is pulled from the frozen Shill Brook, and most assume he died while poaching Lord Gilbert's fish. Hugh is not so sure, and when Kendrick's friends are attacked and his daughter Bessie is abducted, the investigation turns urgent and painfully personal.

When Hugh and Kate bring their newborn son to be baptized, they discover the locked church font mysteriously dry. Soon after, Father Robert is found bleeding near the rood screen, and rising anger over a new poll tax adds another layer of danger to Hugh's inquiry.

Edmund Harkins, a notorious wife beater and bully, goes missing from Bampton and later turns up as a corpse rooted out by hungry pigs. Almost everyone wanted him gone, so Hugh must sift through grudges, a meddling new vicar, and an anxious village to find the killer.

After a thunderstorm, one of John Wycliffe's scholars is found dead and everyone blames lightning. Wycliffe is not convinced, so Hugh travels to Oxford to test whether human malice, clever devices, and even plague are stalking the college halls.

Keeping vigil at the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host and crucifix rest between Good Friday and Easter, is considered an honor. When the priest's clerk Odo disappears and dried blood is found before the altar, Hugh must trace what befell the missing watchman.

Lady Philippa and her maid vanish from an enclosed wagon while traveling to Bampton, leaving her husband and household baffled. When a ransom note names Hugh as the courier, he must work out whether he is dealing with a simple kidnapping or something far stranger.

Summoned to attend the ailing Black Prince in London, Hugh finds himself dining at Kennington Palace when his escort, Sir Giles, collapses and dies. Poison is suspected, and the investigation leads through royal favor, old battlefield loyalties, and dangerous court intrigue.

When Bampton's coroner, Hubert Shillside, fails to return from a trip to Oxford, Hugh rides out to look for him. Instead he finds a different corpse and rumors of violent robber bands, forcing him to face the limits of justice when powerful men protect the guilty.

War with France pulls Hugh away from Bampton as he rides to Aquitaine with Lord Gilbert's company. When his old enemy Sir Simon Trillowe is murdered on campaign, Hugh must prove he is not seeking revenge and find the real killer among the troops.

After Hugh, Kate, and their children attend the Midsummer's Eve fire, burned human bones are discovered in the cooling ashes. As other men from nearby villages turn up missing or dead, Hugh traces how a despised bailiff came to be hidden in the blaze.

On the road to Oxford, Hugh finds the body of a young Benedictine novice, barefoot and stabbed near a nearby abbey. Drawn into monastic politics, he must satisfy an anxious abbot while following a trail of secrets that reaches far beyond the cloister.

Sir Henry Burley, an overbearing guest at Bampton Castle, takes a sleeping potion from Hugh and is found dead the next morning. With suspicion falling on his own medicines, Hugh must uncover whether sudden illness or careful poison ended the knight's life.

A badly beaten traveling chapman is left dying beneath the porch of St. Andrew's Chapel, an ancient coin hidden in his mouth. Hugh's hunt for the attackers and the coin's origin leads through kidnappings, a ruthless abbot, and secrets powerful men would silence.

Thomas atte Bridge, the most disliked man in Bampton, is found hanging from a tree and everyone assumes suicide. Hugh and his wife Kate see signs of murder, forcing him to untangle old grudges and a priest's dark past before another death follows.

Precious books vanish from the study of scholar John Wycliffe, and he calls on his former pupil Hugh de Singleton to recover them. The search draws Hugh back to Oxford, where stolen manuscripts, a drowned scholar, and his courtship of Kate dangerously intersect.

After the manor beadle, Alan, fails to return from his nightly curfew rounds, his body is found savagely torn near the track to St. Andrew's Chapel. Master Hugh must decide whether a wolf, a man, or something more tangled is to blame.

Hugh de Singleton, a newly trained surgeon in Oxford, is invited to Bampton Castle after healing Lord Gilbert's injury. When a young woman's bones are found in the castle cesspit, his medical skills and quiet persistence are tested by his first murder inquiry.