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Bernard Knight
Full Series List in Order
A Crowner John Mystery
1 - The Sanctuary Seeker (Feb-1998)2 - The Poisoned Chalice (Aug-1998)
3 - Crowner's Quest (Apr-1999)
4 - The Awful Secret (Aug-2000)
5 - The Tinner's Corpse (Aug-2001)
6 - The Grim Reaper (Jul-2002)
7 - Fear in the Forest (Apr-2003)
8 - The Witch Hunter (Apr-2004)
9 - Figure Of Hate (Aug-2005)
10 - The Elixir of Death (Apr-2006)
11 - The Noble Outlaw (May-2007)
12 - The Manor of Death (Jun-2008)
13 - Crowner Royal (Jun-2009)
14 - A Plague of Heretics (Apr-2010)
15 - Crowner's Crusade (Jan-2013)
A Richard Pryor Mystery
1 - Where Death Delights (May-2010)2 - According to the Evidence (Apr-2011)
3 - Grounds for Appeal (Feb-2012)
3 - Dead in the Dog (Jul-2012)
The Sixties Mysteries
1 - The Lately Deceased (Nov-2015)2 - The Thread of Evidence (Dec-2015)
3 - Mistress Murder (Jan-2016)
4 - Russian Roulette (Jan-2016)
5 - Policeman's Progress (Jan-2016)
6 - Tiger at Bay (Feb-2016)
7 - The Expert (Mar-2016)
Book List in Order: 30 titles
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Madoc, prince of America
- 1977
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The epic story of Prince Madoc, son of the ruler of North Wales, who after the death of his wife leaves behind the battles for power and prestige in his homeland and journeys into the unknown, sailing with a small group of companions across the Weste...
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The Sanctuary Seeker
- Feb-1998
- / Historical Mystery
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He fought for his nation in the Crusades. Now he must prepare for a wholly different kind of battle…1194. Appointed by Richard the Lionheart as the first coroner for the county of Devon, Sir John de Wolfe, former crusader knight, rides out to the l...
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The Poisoned Chalice
- Aug-1998
- / Historical Mystery
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December, 1194. The well-born ladies of Exeter are not having a good week. First, Christina Rifford, the daughter of a rich merchant, is raped. Then, just months before her marriage, Lady Adele de Courcy is found dead in one of the poorest areas of t...
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Crowner's Quest
- Apr-1999
- / Historical Mystery
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Sometimes the most sinister of cases have the simplest of origins…Christmas Eve, 1194. County coroner Sir John de Wolfe gratefully escapes his wife Matilda’s party to examine the body of a canon who has been found hanged. Suicide is suspected, bu...
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The Awful Secret
- Aug-2000
- / Historical Mystery
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A terrible truth that could shake Christendom to its core.1195. Gilbert de Rideford " Knight of the Temple of Solomon and old acquaintance of county coroner Sir John de Wolfe " arrives in Exeter, begging for Sir John’s help.He claims to have co...
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The Tinner's Corpse
- Aug-2001
- / Historical Mystery
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A decapitated body, a missing person, a devastating betrayal…1195. When county coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to the bleak Devonshire moors to investigate the murder of a tin miner, he has little idea how difficult this new investigation wil...
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The Grim Reaper
- Jul-2002
- / Historical Mystery
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Coroner Sir John chases down a serial killer with a taste for Biblical justice in this suspenseful instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. 1195. County coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to inspect a...
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Fear in the Forest
- Apr-2003
- / Historical Mystery
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Who would dare kill one of the king’s foresters? Coroner Sir John investigates in this characterful instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. Devon, 1195. A tall, brown mare gallops into the sleepy v...
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The Witch Hunter
- Apr-2004
- / Historical Mystery
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Coroner Sir John investigates an alleged murder by witchcraft in this page-turning instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. Exeter, 1195. When a prominent guild-master falls dead across his horse, county...
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Lion Rampant
- Aug-2004
- / Historical
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A historical epic by Bernard Knight, Lion Rampant is set in medieval Wales and features the tale of Nest, a princess known as 'the Welsh Helen of Troy'. Nest was a lover of King Henry I of England, married the steward of a Pembrokeshire cas...
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Figure Of Hate
- Aug-2005
- / Historical Mystery
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October, 1195. High-spirited young knights, drunken squires, pickpockets and horse thieves are pouring into Exeter for a one-day jousting tournament. Not even the discovery of a naked corpse in the River Exe can spoil the excitement. During the tour...
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The Elixir of Death
- Apr-2006
- / Historical Mystery
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1195. Prince John still plots to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lionheart--and in his wicked schemes he is supported by Philip of France. The French king offers to help John financially by sending him a mysterious alchemist, a Mohamme...
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Sword of Shame
- Jul-2006
- / Historical Mystery
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The Latin inscription carved on the gleaming blade read "He who lives in falsehood slays his soul; he who lies, his honor.” If only they had known how true those words would prove to be. The Sword of Shame was lovingly crafted by a Saxon swordsmi...
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The Noble Outlaw
- May-2007
- / Historical Mystery
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Exeter, 1195. During renovations at the new school in Smythen Street, funded by Crowner John's brother-in-law Richard de Revelle, a semi-skeletalized body is found in the loft of an outhouse. The coroner is called in to investigate. When the dead man...
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The Manor of Death
- Jun-2008
- / Historical Mystery
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When an unidentified body is discovered in the harbor town of Axmouth, the county coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute, but it was clearly no accident. In the ensuing mu...
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Crowner Royal
- Jun-2009
- / Historical
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It is April 1196. At the command of King Richard and his Chief Justiciar Hubert Walter, county coroner Sir John de Wolfe--along with his officer Gwyn of Polruan and clerk Thomas de Peyne--has left Exeter for London where he is to become the first Cor...
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A Plague of Heretics
- Apr-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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The 14th gripping murder mystery to feature 12th century coroner, Crowner John With the city of Exeter ravaged by an outbreak of the "yellow plague," Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, must divide his time between visiting his sick brother, Wi...
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Where Death Delights
- May-2010
- / Mystery
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Forensic pathologist Richard Pryor uses his ‘golden handshake’ to set up in private practice with scientist Angela Bray. A friendly coroner gives them a start, and when two women both claim that human remains found near a reservoir are their rela...
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According to the Evidence
- Apr-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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A forensic mystery of the 1950s - After starting their risky venture of a private forensic consultancy, Doctor Richard Pryor -- now a Home Office pathologist -- and forensic biologist Angela Bray have now become firmly established. An apparent bizarr...
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Grounds for Appeal
- Feb-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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Home Office pathologist Doctor Richard Pryor is pleased when forensic biologist Angela Bray is able to return earlier than expected to their new and thriving private forensic consultancy, following the quick recovery of her mother from a stroke. Toge...
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Dead in the Dog
- Jul-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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A fifties murders mystery set in Malaya from author of the ‘Crowner John’ books. Arriving in Singapore, newly-qualified pathologist Tom Howden is still questioning his decision to sign on for three years in Her Majesty's Far East Land Forces....
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Crowner's Crusade
- Jan-2013
- / Historical Mystery
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How a humble Devon knight became a king’s coroner: the thrilling prequel to the perennially popular Crowner John medieval mystery series. 1192. Returning from the Holy Land at the end of the Third Crusade with Richard the Lionheart, King of Engl...
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The Lately Deceased
- Nov-2015
- / Police Procedural
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A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight. When super-rich Margaret Walker is found dead after a wild party, people assume it was an overdose - until a knife wound, almost invisible, is discovered on her body. But who would ha...
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The Thread of Evidence
- Dec-2015
- / Mystery
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A classic murder mystery by acclaimed author Bernard Knight.When some boys find a human bone in a cave in Cardiganshire, Wales, a case that has gone unresolved for over thirty years suddenly springs back into life. For that grisly find is only the st...
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Mistress Murder
- Jan-2016
- / Suspense
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A classic murder mystery by acclaimed author Bernard Knight.When a beautiful woman is found dead in a wrecked car, it’s assumed that she simply lost control and crashed while drunk " a sad but not unfamiliar story. Soon, though, a ...
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Policeman's Progress
- Jan-2016
- / Suspense
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A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight.Jackie Stott, Tyneside boxer turned nightclub owner " and criminal " seeks to evade the Newcastle police as he stumbles from one dodgy deal to another.When Jackie gets in...
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Russian Roulette
- Jan-2016
- / Suspense
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A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight, set in London and Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Simon Smith, an ex-Army man with a gift for languages, is drafted in by a shady businessman to do some ‘work’ in the USSR. ...
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Tiger at Bay
- Feb-2016
- / Suspense
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A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight. Featuring dastardly deeds by cunning villains, this taut tale is set in the world-famous (and infamous) docks area of Cardiff, known far and wide as Tiger Bay, during the 1960s. ...
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The Expert
- Mar-2016
- / Suspense
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Renowned pathologist John Hardy is thinking of leaving his job following the death of his wife " but when a series of women are found murdered, leaving police baffled, it's up to Hardy to try and crack one last big case. The odds are agai...
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