The Owen Archer Series #1 “Suspenseful, historically accurate, and blessed with a wonderful cast of characters, The Apothecary Rose is an absolute delight from start to finish…” – Charles de Lint, author of the Newford Series In the year of our Lord 1363, two suspicious deaths in the infirmary of St. Mary’s Abbey catch the attention of the powerful John Thoresby, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York. One victim is a pilgrim, while the second is Thoresby’s ne’er-do-well ward, both apparently poisoned by a physic supplied by Master Apothecary Nicholas Wilton. In the wake of these deaths, the archbishop dispatches one-eyed spy Owen Archer to York to find the murderer. Under the guise of a disillusioned soldier keen to make a fresh start, Owen insinuates himself into Wilton’s apothecary as an apprentice. But he finds Wilton bedridden, with the shop being run by his lovely, enigmatic young wife, Lucie. As Owen unravels a tangled history of scandal and tragedy, he discovers at its center a desperate, forbidden love twisted over time into obsession. And the woman he has come to love is his prime suspect

The Owen Archer Series #2 “A lovingly detailed background informs and animates the plot at every point.” – KIRKUS Perfect for fans of both Ellis Peters and CJ Sansom, The Lady Chapel is a vivid and immersive portrait of court intrigue and a testament to the power of the medieval guilds. Summer in the year of our Lord 1365. On the night after the Corpus Christi procession, a man is brutally murdered on the steps of York Minster. The next morning his severed hand is found in a room at the York Tavern – a room hastily vacated by a fellow guild member who had quarreled with the victim. Archbishop Thoresby calls on Owen Archer to investigate. As Owen tracks the fleeing merchant, he uncovers a conspiracy involving a powerful company of traders, but his only witness is a young boy who has gone into hiding, and his only suspect is a mysterious cloaked woman. When Owen discovers a link between the traders and a powerful coterie in the royal court, he brings his apothecary wife Lucie into the race to find the boy before he is silenced forever by the murderers

The Owen Archer Series #3 When a young nun dies of a fever in the town of Beverley in the summer of 1365, she is buried quickly for fear of the plague. But one year later a woman appears, talking of relic-trading and miracles. She claims to be the dead nun resurrected. Murder follows swiftly in her wake, and the worried Archbishop of York asks Owen Archer to investigate. Travelling to Leeds and Scarborough to unearth clues, Owen finds only a trail of corpses, until a meeting with Geoffrey Chaucer, spy for King Edward, links the nun with mercenary soldiers and the powerful Percy family. Meanwhile, in York, the apothecary Lucie Wilton has won the mysterious woman's confidence. But the troubled secrets which start to emerge will endanger them all…

В год 1363 от Рождества Христова в аббатстве Святой Марии при схожих, но весьма странных обстоятельствах умирают двое: неизвестный пилигрим и благородный сэр Освальд Фицуильям. Причиной их смерти, судя по всему, послужило снадобье, приготовленное аптекарем по имени Николас Уилтон. Еще более загадочным представляется всем тот факт, что и самого Уилтона охватил тяжкий недуг. Разобраться в хитросплетении тайн предстоит одноглазому Оуэну Арчеру — бывшему капитану лучников и герцогскому шпиону, ныне на службе у Йоркского архиепископа

Летом 1365 года, в канун великого праздника Тела Христова, весь Йорк был потрясен известием о загадочном убийстве торговца Уилла Краунса, произошедшем возле стен главного собора. Более того, отрубленная рука Краунса непостижимым образом оказывается в одной из комнат городской таверны, а вскоре при странных обстоятельствах погибает проживающий в этой комнате постоялец — еще один торговец, по имени Гилберт Ридли. И вновь все с ужасом видят, что у трупа отсутствует правая рука. Обеспокоенный происходящим архиепископ Йоркский поручает бывшему капитану лучников Оуэну Арчеру провести тщательное расследование