Kate Sedley Books In Order

In The Shadow Of The Throne Books In Publication Order

  1. Richmond and Elizabeth (1967)
  2. The Warrior King / Harry the King (1970)

Roger The Chapman Books In Publication Order

  1. Death and the Chapman (1991)
  2. The Plymouth Cloak (1992)
  3. The Hanged Man / The Weaver’s Tale (1993)
  4. The Holy Innocents (1994)
  5. The Eve of Saint Hyacinth (1995)
  6. The Wicked Winter (1995)
  7. The Brothers of Glastonbury (1997)
  8. The Weaver’s Inheritance (1998)
  9. The Saint John’s Fern (1999)
  10. The Goldsmith’s Daughter (2001)
  11. The Lammas Feast (2002)
  12. Nine Men Dancing (2003)
  13. The Midsummer Rose (2004)
  14. The Burgundian’s Tale (2005)
  15. The Prodigal Son (2005)
  16. The Three Kings of Cologne (2007)
  17. The Green Man (2008)
  18. The Dance of Death (2009)
  19. Wheel of Fate (2010)
  20. The Midsummer Crown (2011)
  21. The Tintern Treasure (2012)
  22. The Christmas Wassail (2013)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Kingmaker / Last of the Barons (As: Brenda Honeyman, With: Brenda Clarke) (1969)
  2. Brother Bedford (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1972)
  3. Good Duke Humphrey (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1973)
  4. King’s Minions (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1974)
  5. The Queen and Mortimer (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1974)
  6. Edward, The Warrior (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1975)
  7. All the King’s Sons (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1976)
  8. The Golden Griffin (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1976)
  9. At the King’s Court (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1977)
  10. The King’s Tale (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1977)
  11. Macbeth, King of Scots (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1977)
  12. Emma the Queen (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1978)
  13. Glass Island (By:Brenda Clarke) (1978)
  14. The Lofty Banners (By:Brenda Clarke) (1979)
  15. For King and Country (1979)
  16. Harold of the English (As: Brenda Honeyman) (1979)
  17. The Far Morning (By:Brenda Clarke) (1982)
  18. All Through The Day (By:Brenda Clarke) (1985)
  19. Three Women (By:Brenda Clarke) (1985)
  20. Winter Landscape (By:Brenda Clarke) (1987)
  21. Under Heaven (By:Brenda Clarke) (1989)
  22. Equal Chance (By:Brenda Clarke) (1990)
  23. Riches of the Heart (By:Brenda Clarke) (1991)
  24. Beyond the World (By:Brenda Clarke) (1992)
  25. Sisters and Lovers (By:Brenda Clarke) (1992)
  26. A Durable Fire (By:Brenda Clarke) (1993)
  27. A Rose in May (By:Brenda Clarke) (1993)
  28. Sweet Auburn (By:Brenda Clarke) (1995)
  29. Richard Plantagenet (By:Brenda Clarke) (1997)
  30. A Royal Alliance (By:Brenda Clarke) (1999)

In The Shadow Of The Throne Book Covers

Roger The Chapman Book Covers

Standalone Novels Book Covers

Kate Sedley Books Overview

Death and the Chapman

It is 1471, and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions rages on. Roger the Chapman, who has just quit being a monk, gets caught up in the disappearance of Clement Weaver. It seems that Clement is not the only one to have vanished without a trace from the Crossed Hands Inn. As Roger sets off i for London to investigate, he soon finds his own life is very much in jeopardy…

The Plymouth Cloak

In 1473, Philip Underdown, a Royal Messenger carrying an important letter from King Edward IV to the Duke of Brittany, is murdered. The finger of suspicion points to Roger the Chapman, whose cudgel is the undoubted murder weapon. Set during the Wars of the Roses, Roger must once again use his detective powers to unmask the culprit and solve a mystery…

The Hanged Man / The Weaver’s Tale

When the disreputable brother of a respected nobleman is hanged for murdering a man who later turns up alive, Roger, a fifteenth century English peddler, senses foul play among the gentry.

The Holy Innocents

Upon his arrival at the village of Totnes, peddler sleuth Roger the Chapman hears of a band of outlaws who allegedly murdered two missing children, but he must use his detective talent to find the real killers, while fighting to save his own life.

The Eve of Saint Hyacinth

Medieval sleuth Roger the Chapman sets out to uncover the traitorous spy who has infiltrated the household of the Duke of Gloucester, the brother of King Edward IV, has killed the only man who could identify him, and is now targeting the duke himself.

The Wicked Winter

Despite the wintry weather, Roger the traveling Chapman is once again relishing the freedom of his calling. As he journeys west, he finds himself following in the footsteps of an itinerant preacher, Brother Simeon, whose fiery sermons are the talk of the countryside. Roger, who has met the Dominican friar before, and finds his zeal wearying, is less than enthused when they meet at Cederwell Manor, where Simeon has come to pray with Lady Cederwell and Roger to sell her his wares. But scarcely have the two men arrived when Lady Cederwell is found dead, sprawled on the frozen earth beneath the ancient tower she had converted into her private chapel, the circumstances strangely fulfilling the prophecy of a babbling hermit Roger had met on the road. Suddenly the friar and the Chapman are united by their aim to discover the truth behind the death at Cederwell Manor. In this, the sixth in her atmospheric and thoughtful detective series, Kate Sedley confirms her place in the world of medieval crime fiction.

The Brothers of Glastonbury

Roger the traveling chapman should be on his way home to medieval Bristol after a nice summer’s peddling. But a request from his duke to escort a bride en route to her betrothed takes him toward Wells, where the groom and his brother have vanished. Roger links the disappearances to the discovery of ancient scrolls written in a strange language. But as he deciphers the archaic tongue, he concludes that a still greater mystery lies at the heart of the brothers’ disappearance. AUTHORBIO: Kate Sedley, a mother and grandmother, lives in England with her husband.

The Weaver’s Inheritance

The year is 1476, and after a hard winter hawking his wares through the ice and rain, Roger the Chapman is looking forward to spending Christmas in Bristol, enjoying the warm hearth and good food of his mother in law Margaret even if it means the young widower will have to endure her constant matchmaking. However, Margaret has barely introduced him to her cousin Adela when Roger’s attentions are demanded elsewhere. The long lost son of a wealthy Bristol weaver, presumed murdered on a visit to London six years before, has miraculously reappeared, to the delight of the old man and to the indignation of Alison Burnett, who refuses to believe that the bedraggled stranger is her brother Clement the rightful heir to half her father’s fortune. When Alison’s violent objections provoke Alderman Weaver into disinheriting her altogether, she appeals to Roger’s reputation as a solver of mysteries to prove her growing suspicions right.

The Saint John’s Fern

It is October 1477 and Roger the Chapman, newly married and still enjoying wedded bliss, is surprised to find his old, familiar feeling of restlessness returning. Within a month he is setting off, once again, on the ancient ridge road that dissects Dartmoor and heads for Plymouth, driven by some instinct that he is needed there. Roger accepts a lift from a carter who is going to visit his daughter, Joanna, in the oldest part of the city. Roger’s instinct is soon proven correct when Joanna tells the story of her neighbor, Master Capstick, who was brutally beaten to death. The chief suspect is Capstick’s great nephew, Beric. Master Capstick’s housekeeper saw Beric leaving the house that morning, his tunic stained with blood, and many more people saw the young man’s wild ride for home on his great black horse. When the King’s men arrived at Beric’s manor house, though, the horse was already in the stables and Beric had somehow managed to vanish completely. The local people, quick to fall back on the witchcraft of their ancestors, blame The Saint John’s Fern, which if eaten can make a man invisible. Roger, already responsible for solving many difficult mysteries, suspects that there is a more obvious answer and begins his own inquiries. Roger notices that he is not the first to approach witnesses, and when an attempt is made on his life, Roger knows he must be close to a truth that is even more extraordinary than the superstition if only he can live to tell it.

The Goldsmith’s Daughter

King Edward IV trembles as he decides the fate of his sibling. And Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots, trying to find a way to save George from being put to death by their eldest and powerful brother, the King. So when the Duke sees his old and loyal servant, monk turned travelling salesman Roger the Chapman, among the crowd at the trial he recognises that he has a chance. If only the chapman sleuth could prove that the kinswoman of the King’s favourite leman hadn’t poisoned her taciturn husband. If Isolda Bonifant, the daughter of a well established London goldsmith, were innocent and her name cleared, then Edward’s chief mistress cousin of the accused Isolda would be more than willing to do the wily Duke’s bidding. But Roger the Chapman must act fast and, in a complex case like this one and with the pressure of Richard of Gloucester upon him, he can’t simply rely on his intuition.

The Lammas Feast

The eleventh in the highly acclaimed Roger the Chapman series. It’s July 1478, and business is good for Bristol’s bakers during the lead up to Lammastide ‘Loaf mass’, the ancient harvest festival. But the shady Jasper Fairbrother’s baking days are over when he’s found face down with a knife in his back. Suspicion immediately falls on the mysterious Breton who’d arrived that day and had been seen having an argument with Fairbrother. But when it emerges that the Breton is also a suspected Lancastrian spy, Roger the Chapman wonders if suspicion of murder is merely a convenient pretext for the authorities to hunt down the Breton. True, there is no reason for Roger to take an interest in the case, and should he when he ought to be pedding his wares to provide for his new baby boy? But his curiosity and sense of justice is piqued and before he finds out who murdered the baker, he is to become more than a little personally involved as some of the things nearest and dearest to his heart come under threat.

Nine Men Dancing

The twelfth in the highly acclaimed Roger the Chapman series In the bitter winter of 1478, Roger the Chapman takes to the roads once again to sell his wares. His long suffering wife Adela is happy to let him go, on condition that he promises to return by the feast of St Patrick in March. Having sold most of his goods, Roger starts on the long road home, keen to surprise Adela by arriving home early for once. However, on the way, he stumbles upon the tiny village of Lower Brockhurst where he is immediately made welcome at the village alehouse. Overhearing conversations regarding the recent disappearance of a local girl, Roger’s investigative instincts are instantly aroused, and he determines to stay awhile in order to try and solve the mystery. Had she really just vanished? Or had something much more sinister taken place? But Roger soon realises that there is more to the girl’s story than meets the eye, and that the village harbours dark secrets that some people would do anything to prevent being discovered.

The Midsummer Rose

The thirteenth in the Roger the Chapman series??Roger the Chapman is not a superstitious man. He hears stories of murders and haunted houses around the market town of Bristol, and chooses to believe the more prosaic explanation every time. But when Roger is attacked in the very house where a woman murdered her violent husband thirty years previously, he is forced to admit that something strange is going on…

The Burgundian’s Tale

The new title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series Roger is summoned by the Duke of Gloucester to assist in the investigation into the murder of the son of a lady in waiting to Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, who is on a triumphant return visit to London. It seems Roger has no choice but to return to the dirty, crowded city, where he soon meets a surprising number of people ? royalty, servants and workers alike ? who all have a motive for murder.

The Prodigal Son

The latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter. But when John Wedmore is accused of being the young page who, six years earlier, robbed his mistress and murdered a fellow servant, and is thrown into prison, Roger feels obliged to investigate the charge.

The Three Kings of Cologne

The new Roger the Chapman novelWhen the remains of Isabella Linkinhorne, who disappeared twenty years earlier and was known to have had three secret lovers, are discovered on nunnery land, Roger the Chapman is called in. Faced with the task of tracking down three people of whom he knows next to nothing, Roger nicknames them Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior after the Magi The Three Kings of Cologne

The Green Man

A Roger the Chapman Mystery Summer,1482. An English army invades Scotland in order to put King James the Thirds renegade younger brother, the Duke of Albany, on the Scottish throne. Albany insists his old acquaintance, Roger the Chapman, be a member of his personal bodyguard. But during the march northwards, a series of sinister events, centred around the cult figure of the mythical Green Man, makes Roger question Albanys true motive for requesting his presence…

The Dance of Death

A Roger the Chapman Mystery Roger the Chapman is far from pleased when the King’s Spymaster General commands him to accompany the manipulative Eloise Gray on a journey to Paris, pretending to be her husband. Roger guesses that the French king is making overtures to the Duke of Burgundy on behalf of the Dauphin which could wreck the relationship with England s staunch ally and most important customer for her wool exports…

Wheel of Fate

In fifteenth century London, the child king is not the only one under threat 1483. Amidst the chaos following the death of King Edward IV, Roger the Chapman is called to London to investigate a threat to the Godslove family. In the past year, there have been two deaths and a mysterious poisoning. Roger dismisses their worries at first but, when another member of the family disappears, he stumbles across a shocking secret that threatens to destroy the entire Godslove family…

Related Authors

Leave a Comment