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Author
Series
Crispin trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
Author
Series
Crispin trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
Author
Series
Crispin trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Former knight and nobleman Crispin Guest, now surviving as a detective in 14th century London, agrees to track down stolen parchments possibly connected with a series of brutal murders for a Jewish physician attending the Queen.
5) Blood lance
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the apparent suicide of a man who fell from the London Bridge, Crispin Guest investigates suspicions that the victim was actually murdered and discovers links to a powerful religious artifact before his efforts are complicated by the arrival of his friend, Geoffrey Chaucer.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the apparent suicide of a man who fell from the London Bridge, Crispin Guest investigates suspicions that the victim was actually murdered and discovers links to a powerful religious artifact before his efforts are complicated by the arrival of his friend, Geoffrey Chaucer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Old London Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this prequel, Crispin Guest has his hands full in more than murder: his abduction, two women, a young cutpurse and a friend turned adversary.
When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest begins an inquiry. The dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Crispin Guest awakens in a strange bed after a night of passion and finds a woman dead, murdered. Drunk, Crispin scarcely remembers the night before. Did he kill her? But when other young women turn up dead under similar circumstances, he knows there is a deadly stalker loose in London. Could it have to do with the mysterious Tears of the Virgin Mary kept under lock and key by a close-lipped widow, a relic that a rival family would kill to get their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
1390. Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. Two monks lie murdered, their Holy Blood relic stolen: a relic that is said to run liquid for the sinless and remain stubbornly dry for the sinner. Unwilling to become involved in a bitter dispute between a country monastery and Westminster Abbey, the disgraced former knight Crispin Guest attempts to return the relic to Hailes where it belongs, but somehow it keeps returning to his hands no matter what....
Author
Series
Crispin Guest novels volume 11
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Father Bulthius Braydon begs Crispin Guest for help when corpses are seen stalking St Modwen Church's graveyard, while Crispin's seven-year-old son is accused of murder. As Crispin investigates, it seems that St Modwen's links both cases, and he is soon in a desperate race against time to solve the strange goings-on and prove his son's innocence"--Publisher's description.
11) Sword of shadows
Author
Series
Crispin Guest novels volume 13
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A quest to find the ancient sword Excalibur quickly turns into a hunt for a determined killer for Crispin Guest. London, 1396. A trip to the swordsmith shop for Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, and his apprentice Jack Tucker takes an unexpected turn when Crispin crosses paths with Carantok Teague, a Cornish treasure hunter. Carantok has a map he is convinced will lead him to the sword of Excalibur - a magnificent relic dating back to King Arthur...
12) Traitor's codex
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, LTD
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, is enjoying his ale in the Boar's Tusk tavern - until a stranger leaves a mysterious wrapped bundle on his table, telling him, "You'll know what to do." Inside is an ancient leather-bound book written in an unrecognizable language. Accompanied by his apprentice, Jack Tucker, Crispin takes the unknown codex to a hidden rabbi, where they make a shocking discovery: it is the Gospel of Judas from the Holy Land, and its...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"1399, London. A drink at the Boar's Tusk takes an unexpected turn for Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, and his apprentice, Jack Tucker, when a messenger claims the prioress at St. Frideswide wants to hire him to investigate murders at the priory. Two of Prioress Drueta's nuns have been killed in a way that signifies two of the Seven Deadly Sins, and she's at her wits end. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing outside of London when the exiled Henry Bolingbroke,...
14) Spiteful bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Restoring his recently inherited family home is a daunting enough task for young lawyer Nigellus Cobmartin without the addition of any unwelcome discoveries. But when workmen turning the crumbling manor house into a grand home for Nigellus and his companion, John Rykener, uncover a skeleton bound, tied and hidden in the wall - and holding the precious relic that went missing from his father's estate nearly twenty years ago - Nigellus immediately...