Owen Archer Books in Order

In 1377, a golden lion crafted by York's goldsmiths as a coronation gift for young King Richard disappears before it can leave the city. Tasked with recovering it, Owen Archer finds himself juggling angry guildsmen, rumours of foreign spies, a drowned man in the river and a brutal killing that point toward dangerously powerful patrons.

When taverner Tom Merchet vanishes from York without a word, his wife Bess turns to their old friend Owen Archer for help. Following traces of a forgotten quarrel, a suspicious injury and gossip about a flirtatious widow, Owen uncovers buried secrets and a patient enemy determined to ruin Tom's hard-won life.

In 1376, a stabbed stranger is found just beyond York's walls beside a cart of carved stones meant for a priory. As Owen Archer traces the shipment back to Bishop Wykeham and uncovers the hand of a treacherous archer from his past, threats close in on his wife and children.

Returning to York in 1375, Owen Archer and his wife Lucie find the city terrified of plague and quick to blame healers like their friend Magda Digby. When a merchant's servant is pulled dead from the river and a fire strikes his warehouse, Owen must sift superstition, family quarrels and Magda's troubled kin to learn who is turning fear into murder.

As York prepares to welcome a new archbishop, two corpses are found in the grounds of the minster and a golden-haired singer is discovered locked in the chapter house. Under pressure to keep scandal from the powerful Neville family, Owen Archer must link the dead men, the frightened youth and a returning figure from his past.

In 1374, the mutilated body of Hoban Swann is discovered in the forest outside York, his throat ripped and his hunting dogs missing. Rumours blame wolves, but Owen Archer suspects human hands, and as more violence follows he uncovers buried feuds, long memories and a perilous choice about his own future.

Wise woman Magda Digby summons Owen Archer to her island hut on the River Ouse with an unsettling request. She wants him to guard a jar of human bones from ruthless relic dealers and a shadowy figure who seems willing to kill to claim it.

With Archbishop John Thoresby gravely ill, York's great families are already scheming over his successor when the Princess of Wales arrives at his bedside. A courtier is murdered and a royal messenger found hanged, forcing Owen Archer to hunt a killer hidden among powerful guests before they can twist the church to their advantage.

A winter brawl on York's riverside ends with a pilot pushed into the icy Ouse, but his wounds show he was attacked before he fell. As more bodies surface and a frightened schoolboy vanishes, Owen Archer and his adopted son Jasper follow a trail of theft, fire and family secrets.

When the remains of powerful knight Sir Ranulf Pagnell are brought home to York, his resentful kin blame Bishop Wykeham for his death. After a near-fatal accident and a fire that reveals a dead midwife in the bishop's house, Owen Archer must decide whether he is chasing arson, murder or both.

While Owen Archer finishes dangerous work for John of Gaunt in his native Wales, rebel leaders urge him to stay and fight for their cause. In York, Lucie Wilton struggles with slander against her apothecary and an alarming summons to her family home, as both husband and wife are drawn into plots that could tear them apart.

Escorting a pilgrimage to St David's in 1369, Owen Archer is secretly charged with testing the loyalty of the Duke of Lancaster's steward in south Wales. A dead man in ducal livery and a violent household riven by theft and jealousy pull him into treachery and murder.

In plague-stricken York, a run of unexplained deaths at St Leonard's Hospital threatens scandal for its ambitious master. Drawn in despite himself, Owen Archer uncovers old grudges, hidden debts and a puzzle among the hospital's paying residents that may explain why they are dying.

King Edward's push to install William of Wykeham as Bishop of Winchester sends Owen Archer north with a diplomatic party that soon turns deadly. When his friend Ned Townley is blamed for a string of suspicious drownings and disappearances, Owen must prove his innocence before politics sacrifice him.

On the night after York's Corpus Christi procession, a wealthy wool merchant is found with his throat cut on the minster steps and his severed hand left in another man's room. Owen Archer follows a trail of guild rivalries, missing witnesses and a mysterious cloaked woman.

After a young nun is buried in Beverley, a woman claiming to be her returns months later with a stolen relic and a year she refuses to explain. As Joanna Calverley's story unravels, Owen Archer and his wife Lucie must untangle murder, treason and dangerous visions.

York, 1363. When two men die after taking a physic from Nicholas Wilton's shop, one-eyed ex-archer Owen Archer goes undercover as the apothecary's apprentice, only to discover that Wilton's clever wife Lucie may hold both the crucial clues and the greatest risk.