William Savage Books in Order

Dr Adam Bascom discovers a clergyman's body in a country churchyard and expects an investigation. When the authorities, church, and family seem content to suppress questions, his curiosity drives him to pursue a death everyone else would rather forget.

The murder of a master weaver threatens to unsettle Norwich's textile trade and expose a failing business. Bookseller Ashmole Foxe investigates a mysterious cloth purchase and the concealed dealings behind a death with consequences for the city's economy.

A landowner's fatal fall during a fox hunt looks accidental until Dr Adam Bascom notices inconsistencies. Reconstructing the victim's last morning brings him into conflict with the dead man's son and uncovers trouble beneath rural Norfolk's peaceful appearance.

A merchant banker's strangled body turns up aboard a wherry, carrying a smell of brandy his reputation cannot explain. Ashmole Foxe investigates connections between Norwich's wealthy merchants and its poorest streets before financial panic compounds the damage.

Treating an assaulted young man with amnesia draws Dr Adam Bascom into Georgian espionage. A murdered royal messenger and missing French cipher documents reveal a conspiracy whose dangers extend beyond his patient as war with Revolutionary France approaches.

Injured after a riding accident, Dr Adam Bascom must investigate local murders without leaving home. Friends and family become his investigators as seemingly separate deaths reveal a plot against a country already fearing invasion from Revolutionary France.

An undertaker's death in a church bell tower leads Ashmole Foxe into a troubled household. A woodcarver's imprisonment, puzzling carved panels, and apparently pointless burglaries suggest that understanding the family's past matters as much as reconstructing the killing.

A merchant dies at a crowded masquerade while an actor's murder revives memories of a long-dead actress. Ashmole Foxe reluctantly investigates both cases, tracing concealed relationships and old resentments behind two seemingly baffling deaths in Georgian Norwich.

A banker's disappearance becomes a murder investigation when his wife is found strangled. Ashmole Foxe must locate the missing man, uncover an unnoticed financial theft, and challenge powerful enemies before Norwich's mercantile community descends into panic.

Three murders draw Ashmole Foxe across Norwich's rigid social divisions, from an aristocratic gathering to a vagrant's sleeping place. Discovering what connects such different victims requires him to look beneath respectable appearances and the city's displays of wealth.

A surgeon's murder is nearly dismissed as an accident until Dr Adam Bascom challenges the coroner's conclusion. Working with the victim's former housekeeper, he confronts social prejudice, reluctant witnesses, and conspirators prepared to kill again rather than face justice.

The murder of a privileged young priest demands Ashmole Foxe's attention, but a woman's body in a supposedly haunted house creates another mystery. Managing both inquiries grows harder as romantic complications threaten to overwhelm his already unsettled life.

Reluctantly investigating a notorious young rake's murder, newly married Adam Bascom encounters a formidable list of enemies. Tracing the victim's destructive relationships leads through Norfolk society toward a criminal scheme that may explain why someone wanted him dead.

Two weeks after their wedding, Foxe and Lucy investigate a respected merchant's brutal death beside the River Wensum. His wife's behavior, unusual finances, and complicated will reveal contradictions that make identifying who hated him increasingly difficult.

Norwich's missing mayor gives Ashmole Foxe an urgent assignment, but an unexpected romantic encounter distracts him. Returning to the search means untangling an increasingly troubling sequence of events while his own prospects for happiness hang in the balance.

A clergyman is found battered to death near Norwich Cathedral, with only his walking cane missing. Ashmole Foxe investigates why a country parson dressed like a bishop inspired such fear among the city's street children and hatred in his killer.