Servant of the Crown Mystery Books in Order

In 1194, newly appointed royal official Faucon de Ramis investigates a miller’s death beneath his wheel. Assisted by an irritable clerk, he discovers that determining the cause requires navigating village grievances, religious authority and dangerous political interests.

A wealthy merchant is murdered, and the suspect seeks sanctuary in a church before Faucon and Brother Edmund can question him. Investigating the household leads them into a trade controlled by the victim’s wife and reveals that other pursuers have their own aims.

A girl’s body is discovered in a dying hamlet’s well, while the suspected killer flees into the forest. Pressured by the sheriff, Faucon and Brother Edmund seek refuge at an abbey, only to become entangled in another urgent search for a missing innocent.

A knight dies soon after accusing his wife of adultery, and Faucon is asked to prove murder. A missing bell draws his attention toward competing family, financial and religious claims, turning an apparently straightforward death into a particularly tangled investigation.

As seasonal legends unsettle Warwickshire, villagers claim a dead man has returned to murder his son. Royal investigator Faucon must confront their account of a walking corpse and uncover the truth beneath fears that the boundary between living and dead has failed.