Julius Falconer

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2009
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • The Spider's Banquet

    A young woman goes to an isolated Warwickshire monastery to visit her brother, who is a monk there. Her sister drops her off at the door. The girl meets her brother in the parlour; they say goodbye and part; and she is never seen again. A search of t...

  • The Spiders Banquet

    A young woman goes to an isolated Warwickshire monastery to visit her brother, who is a monk there. Her sister drops her off at the door. The girl meets her brother in the parlour; they say goodbye and part; and she is never seen again. A search of t...

  • The Will of Joan Goode, 1793

    An 18th-century will stipulates that a large estate will go to a distant relative, but there is a condition: the beneficiary's family must change its name to Goode and adopt the family coat of arms. The beneficiary accepts the rural Yorkshire estate,...

  • A Death Twice Avenged

    From the top of the stairs, a little girl of five overhears an argument in the sitting-room below, between her father and a late-night visitor. Frightened and uncertain she dared not descend the staircase but sat trembling at the top, unable to retur...

  • The Longdon Murders

    On the night of a blizzard in January 1963, an elderly couple who live in a tiny Worcestershire village are summoned to their daughter’s cottage two and a half miles away at Longdon, on urgent but unspecified business. When eventually they reach th...

  • The Unexpected Death of Father Wilfred

    One February evening in the year 1968, Fr Wilfred, the parish priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Droitwich, tumbles out of his confessional, stabbed to death. His older sister demands the best detective in the force, and Stan Wickfield is ...

  • The Bones of Murder

    While renovating the derelict twelfth-century chapel attached to their new house in rural Worcestershire in 1972, Grace and Benjamin Hothersall uncover three skeletons, which have clearly been the victims of murder. When news of this reaches the news...

  • Mr Carrick is Laid To Rest

    It is August 1974. A respected teacher at a private girls’ school in rural Worcestershire, Adrian Carrick, physically attracted to one of the Sixth-Form leavers, discloses his feelings for her. Convinced that he has mishandled their final meeting, ...

  • A Time to Prey

    On the morning following the feast of St Giles, 1 September 1966, the Bishop of Worcester, the Right Reverend Giles Wyndham-Brookes, is found slumped and lifeless in his study at Hartlebury Castle, his official residence. The doors and windows are se...



  • Troubled Waters

    Inspector Wickfield and Sergeant Hewitt find themselves caught up in a saga of murder, illicit money-making and racist thuggery. A young girl's body is found one morning on the banks of a canal. With help from a clairvoyant, the trail leads the inves...

  • The Wichenford Court Murder

    Looking for sophisticated and stylish entertainment to stimulate jaded brain-cells? LOOK NO FURTHER! Falconer has shown yet again that he can produce a top-rate whodunnit in the finest British traditions: urbane, cultured and witty. The peaceful esta...

  • A Figure in the Mist

    When Lady Amelia Walden is murdered at Monk Fryston Hall Hotel in Yorkshire on the night of her eightieth birthday, the chief suspect is Robert Purbright, a bachelor in his fifties engaged at Farlington Hall, the ancestral Walden mansion, to catalogu...

  • The Truth of the Matter

  • The Waif

    Fancy a twenty-first-century murder linked to an eighteenth-century parish register? - with a stroll through the byways of ancient Middle Eastern languages, a piece of eighteenth-century silver, a spot of genealogy and trips to France, Italy and Aust...

  • The Alkan Murder

    The wealthy and reclusive Harry Quirke, misanthropist and student of the piano works of Alkan, is stabbed to death in his country house outside Tadcaster. Only one of the obvious suspects seems to have much of a motive: his alibi is shaky, it is true...

  • A Fearful Madness

    If you think that religion, sex, the aristocracy and mystery might make a good crime novel, TRY THIS ONE! A police investigation into the violent death of a part-time cathedral verger stalls for lack of incriminating evidence. However, three people h...

  • Over and Doubt

    Fancy a bit of political theory mixed up with your murder? a group of Danish students with daring plans for a new world order? a scam involving some missing music scores? wolf-ravens in Scandinavian folklore? Then this is the book for you! Inspector ...

  • The Bite of a Mad Dog

    It is the summer of 1728, and we are in the village of Sherburn, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with its handsome church, boys' grammar-school, ancient tavern and tranquil rural population. Below the church lies the site of the palace of the kings ...

  • The Bite of a Mad Dog: A Country Parson's Curious Tale

    It is the summer of 1728, and we are in the village of Sherburn, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with its handsome church, boys' grammar-school, ancient tavern and tranquil rural population. Below the church lies the site of the palace of the kings ...



  • Death by Aloe-Seed

    Expertly edited for modern readers, this second chronicle of the doings of the vicar of Sherburn draws the reader cosily into eighteenth-century village life where medicine is primitive, travel arduous and time-consuming, curses feared and officers o...

  • The Trials of Thomas Roxby

    We are in the sleepy village of Sherburn in Elmete, Yorkshire, in the year of grace 1729. When George Bywater, the vicar’s servant, is clubbed to death as he collects the parish tithes, the vicar undertakes to track his killer. Unfortunately, his e...

  • The Trials of Thomas Roxby - A Country Parson's Rum Tale

    We are in the sleepy village of Sherburn in Elmete, Yorkshire, in the year of grace 1729. When George Bywater, the vicar's servant, is clubbed to death as he collects the parish tithes, the vicar undertakes to track his killer. Unfortunately, his eff...

  • The Trials of Thomas Roxby: A Country Parsonn

    We are in the sleepy village of Sherburn in Elmete, Yorkshire, in the year of grace 1729. When George Bywater, the vicar's servant, is clubbed to death as he collects the parish tithes, the vicar undertakes to track his killer. Unfortunately, his eff...

  • The Late? Jacob Robshaw

    One day in April 1739, the vicar of Sherburn buries in the churchyard an unfortunate victim of murder, identified as Jacob Robshaw. Weeks later, Robshaw is seen alive and well. Then an ex-convict relates how Robshaw was murdered and buried at Sherbur...

  • Jagger

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    Lionel Jagger, head of English at Mincliffe College in rural Worcestershire, is found dead in bed one morning, with his throat cut. Twenty-eight years old, erudite, talented, popular: an unlikely victim of murder. Inspector Wickfield and his assistan...

  • Tempt Not the Stars

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    The Hon. Mr and Mrs Bede Lambton, of Abberton Hall in Worcestershire, persuade their nephew Gregory to enter a competition run by the Syrian Ministry of Tourism. Gregory, a student in the archaeology department of Bristol University, produces a paper...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Julius Falconer has published 26 books.

Julius Falconer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Late? Jacob Robshaw, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Julius Falconer, The Spiders Banquet, was published in March 2009.

No. Julius Falconer does not write books in series.
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