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    24 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2011
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Archibald the Grim

1 - The Douglas Bastard (May-2022)
2 - Trust and Treason (Oct-2022)
3 - A Time for War (Feb-2023)
4 - The Lion of Galloway (Jul-2023)

The Black Douglas Trilogy

0.5 - Freedom's Sword (Mar-2011)
1 - A Kingdom's Cost (Feb-2013)
2 - Countenance of War (Feb-2013)
3 - Not for Glory (Feb-2013)

A Sir Law Kintour Mystery

1 - The Templar's Cross (Aug-2015)
2 - The Wayward Alliance (Apr-2016)
2.5 - The Winter Kill (Jul-2016)
3 - The Intelligencer (Dec-2016)
4 - The King's Coroner (Dec-2018)
5 - Murder at Saint Giles (Jul-2021)

Son of Scotland

1 - Noble Traitor (Dec-2019)
2 - Ravaged Lands (Aug-2020)
3 - Fate of Kings (Jan-2021)
4 - The Noblest Knight (Dec-2021)

The Stewart Chronicles

1 - A King Ensnared (Nov-2013)
2 - A King Uncaged (Jun-2014)
3 - A King Imperiled (Sep-2017)
4 - A King Empowered (Jun-2019)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • Before William Wallace... before Robert the Bruce... there was another Scottish hero...

    In 1296, newly knighted by the King of the Scots, Andrew de Moray fights to defend his country against the forces of the ruthless invader, King Edward Lon...



  • Jessup is a scout for the Ilkasar Empire, even though it conquered his own people. His affair with Tamra of Wayfare Keep is the one thing connecting him to the Empire he hates. But Tamra's loyalty is to her oaths as a protector of the Empire. Whil...



  • (THE BLACK DOUGLAS TRILOGY: BOOK II)Scottish knight, James Douglas has at last won a small victory over the conquering English at the Battle of Loudoun Hill. His king, Robert the Bruce, commands James to continue his guerrilla war, ...



  • (THE BLACK DOUGLAS TRILOGY: BOOK I)Scotland is occupied; Scottish resistance is crushed. Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch as the Scottish freedom fighter, William Wallace, is hanged, drawn, and quartered. But even under the heel of a b...



  • All over Scotland, crops are burning and people have fled. The English army led by King Edward has invaded, and the Scots meet them in an epic battle at the waters of the Bannockburn. When the battle is over James, Lord of Douglas, emerges a hero and...



  • On the dangerous stage of medieval Scotland, one man--in an English dungeon--stands between the Scots and anarchy.

    Robert III, King of the Scots, is dead, and Scotland in 1406 is balanced on a knife's edge. As he eyes the throne, King Robert's...



  • At last after long years of English imprisonment, Scotland's King James I negotiates the terms of his release and of his marriage to his beloved Joan Beaufort. But he returns to a Scotland in chaos. Surrounded by plots, intrigues, and rebellions, Jam...



  • Sir Law Kintour has returned from the war in France crippled, broke, and in need of a patron. In desperation, he reluctantly accepts a commission to find a nobleman's runaway wife. He enlists the help of a fellow Scot with whom he escaped after their...







  • Thieves and the unsavory of Perth: All in a day's work for lordless Sir Law Kentour…until a mysterious death in the midst of a Highland blizzard. When the sheriff of Perth demands that Sir Law show that the death was not an inconvenient murder...



  • May 1425 should have been a lovely spring month with the hard, deadly winter behind. But a merchant has been murdered, and a mysterious letter he carried is missing, a letter valuable enough to kill for. Sir Law Kintour, still scrambling for a living...



  • "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child..."Scotland, 1436: King James I has been assassinated, his heir is a six-year-old child, and the country could be destroyed by civil war. The queen is determined to retain control of her son. The chancel...



  • A game of spies is afoot. The king's new coroner, Sir Law Kintour, investigates the death of a mysterious stranger in fifteenth-century Perth, Scotland. The investigation is complicated by the civil war brewing as the king raises his army against a r...



  • At last, James, King of Scots, the second of that name, is approaching manhood, intending to fulfill his duty to the realm. Controlled by regents determined to hang onto power, he struggles to gain the strength to oust them. When the leader of the mi...



  • Scotland, 1306: Young Thomas Randolph joins Robert the Bruce in the fight for Scotland's freedom. After a disastrous loss in battle, Thomas is a prisoner and the Bruce has fled. One of many ordered to be executed under the dragon banner, his life is ...



  • The year is 1308. Fighting once again for Scotland's freedom, it falls to Thomas Randolph, nephew of King Robert the Bruce, to outwit and outbattle the conquering English. There is no easy path to victory through lands and lives ravaged by years of w...



  • After the great victory at the Battle of Bannockburn, the King of England barely escapes capture by Thomas Randolph, yet he continues his war to claim Scotland as his own. As King Robert the Bruce fights to force the English to the peace table, his b...



  • Sir Law Kintour is deeply suspicious of the apparent suicide of one of the King's subjects, particularly when it emerges that the dead man is suspected of murder. Assisted by his loyal companion Cormac the minstrel, Sir Law sets out to solve the murd...



  • Thomas Randolph, the Earl of Moray, rides with the King as they drive the last English invaders from Scotland, but Robert the Bruce is beginning to fail. His time is running perilously short. The earl knows that he must broker peace with England befo...






  • Young Archibald, the Black Douglas's bastard son, eagerly returns home to fight for a Scotland ravaged by war. Archie is determined to learn the skills of a knight from the man he now serves. And with danger on every side, he soon learns to slee...



  • Since the Scots' horrific loss at the Battle of Neville's Cross, the powerful English hungrily eye Scotland. Archibald Douglas, a landless bastard and knight, will defend the kingdom until his last breath and with his life's blood. But in this fight,...



  • The city of Berwick, stolen by the English, lies ripe for retaking. With the English King Edward away attempting to conquer France, Archie joins his cousin, the Lord of Douglas, in this perilous venture. But soon, King Edward returns, determined...



  • An uneasy truce. A threat of rebellion. A knight's loyalty is tested to the limit... Scotland and England have signed a truce, but a peaceful life is not to be as Archibald Douglas faces threats from nobles rebelling against King David. Meanwhil...



  • The conclusion of an epic tale... The King of Scots has tasked Archibald Douglas with driving out the last of the English conquerors from Galloway. But when he does so, it only infuriates the young English king, who bring a vast armored force no...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.R. Tomlin has published 24 books.

The next book by J.R. Tomlin, The Warlord Earl, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by J.R. Tomlin, Freedom's Sword, was published in March 2011.

Yes. J.R. Tomlin has 5 series.