Second in the acclaimed Geoffrey Chaucer mystery series,

A medieval mystery in the tradition of Ellis Peters and Edward Marston, Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage casts noted poet Geoffrey Chaucer in the role of detective. Chaucer uses his keen insights into human nature, his experience as a spy, and his skills as an astrologer to track down who murdered the beautiful gypsy, Sophia, while on the road to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury. He enlists the aid of his fellow pilgrims

The only life which sixteen-year-old herbalist Jane Dare has ever known suddenly and traumatically vanishes, when a group of renegade knights destroys the convent in which she has grown up and slays everyone who lives there except herself, the convent infirmarian, and their two patients. The survivors are rescued by two young and ambitious noblemen in the service of King Edward the Fourth, Sir Alan Sanford, and his close friend, Sir John du Fay. Sir Alan is determined to marry a wealthy noblewoman but his heart decrees otherwise. Captivated by the beautiful herbalist, he fights his attraction to her and loses. She is at his side throughout King Edward s fight for the throne. Yet Alan s ambition gets in the way. Knowing this, Jane, in spite of her love for him, lets him go, and pursues her chosen profession: healing. Alan takes control of vast lands in the north, and they part for several years. Until King Edward dies and leaves his son, a mere boy of thirteen, to inherit the throne surrounded by enemies. Their mutual concern for the lad and his younger brother brings Jane and Alan together again. But will they be able to save the boys and still find love once more?

A history of the development of harmony in the Middle Ages, including the music, composers, theorists and music theory, musicians, and relevant historical figures, as well as studies of folk music, medieval chant, and polyphony from the days of Gregorian chant to the florid polyphony of the early Renaissance.

Who murdered the gypsy temptress? Why is a sneak thief disrupting a journey to a holy shrine? Poet Geoffrey Chaucer must find out - or hang A medieval mystery in the tradition of Ellis Peters and Edward Marston, Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage casts noted poet Geoffrey Chaucer in the role of detective. Chaucer uses his keen insight into human nature, his experience as a spy, and his skills as an astrologer to track down who murdered the beautiful gypsy, Sophia, while on the road to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury. He enlists the aid of his fellow pilgrims - one of whom must be the murderer

Who stole the Picasso from the Paris art school? Who's so anxious to get ahold of great artworks that they're willing to commit murder and kidnapping? Art teacher Lindsay Parker must find out - and must also learn the truth about her new love, Alain Bordeaux. Lindsay Parker expected an exciting life when she moved to teach art in Paris. The excitement, however, proved to be more than she had bargained for. A Picasso is stolen from the art school. Two previously unknown Cezannes turn up in a junk shop. One of her new friends is kidnapped and another is murdered. Is Lindsay next? Does she, like the others, know too much? And all the while, at her side, is the handsome, brilliant and mysterious Alain Bordeaux. Who is he? How is he connected to the art thefts? And what role is he destined to play in Lindsay's life? To learn the answers, Lindsay must investigate - in the underworld of Paris.

Second in the acclaimed Geoffrey Chaucer mystery series,