Stephen Attebrook Mysteries Series by Jason Vail
Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #1
The Wayward Apprentice
Jason Vail
Stephen Attebrook, a crippled knight facing poverty and ruin, seems condemned to a quiet life when he takes a position as deputy coroner in the small town of Ludlow. But instead, he plunges into a web of murder and intrigue. A death Attebrook rules an accidental drowning turns out to be a murder, and he must find the killer with little evidence pointing the way. Then a commission to return a runaway apprentice pitches him into the midst of a conflict between a rebellious earl and King Henry III that is about to erupt into civil war. Caught up in the twilight struggle among spies readying for war, Attebrook races to defend the apprentice against a charge of murder while dodging killers in the employ of one of the factions.Thirteenth century England has never been brought more vividly to life than in the pages of The Wayward Apprentice.
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Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #10
![[Stephen Attebrook 10] - The Corpse at Windsor Bridge](https://picture.graycity.net/img/jason-vail/stephen_attebrook_10_-_the_corpse_at_windsor_bridge.jpg "[Stephen Attebrook 10] - The Corpse at Windsor Bridge")
[Stephen Attebrook 10] - The Corpse at Windsor Bridge
Jason Vail
Two weeks after Father Giles de Twet disappeared, his rotting corpse is found in the River Thames beneath the bridge at medieval Windsor, weighed down by a block of stone. Stephen Attebrook, a one-time coroner now at loose ends, finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time after he agrees to escort a herd of cattle from Ludlow to Windsor to feed King Henry's army, which is preparing for civil war. Edward orders Stephen to find Father Giles' killer.Meanwhile, Stephen's arch enemy, Percival FitzAllan, the earl of Arundel, has brought Stephen's niece Ida to Windsor as his captive to petition the king to make the beautiful young woman his ward. FitzAllan's ultimate plan -- marry Ida to a retainer to gain control of Hafton Manor, Stephen and Ida's home.Stephen struggles to solve the murder while risking his life and his fortune to shield Ida from a loathsome marriage.
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Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #11
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[Stephen Attebrook 11] - Missing
Jason Vail
The war between the rebellious barons under Simon de Montfort and those loyal to King Henry III seethes around the border town of Ludlow during February and March 1264, with contending armies ravaging the countryside on every side.
But not all of medieval Ludlow’s citizens are caught up on the conflict, or so they think. Some have more pressing personal business — such as Harry the woodcarver, whose life is jolted by the unexpected return of his estranged wife, Megge. She stuns Harry with the confession that she sold their two sons into serfdom to stave off her own poverty.
What can Harry do in the face of this monstrous revelation but ask his close friend, Stephen Attebrook, the finder extraordinaire, to get the boys back?
This request plunges Stephen and his two friends, Harry and Gilbert, into the midst of the war as they rush across the March in search of the missing children — a search that ultimately leads them into the dangerous wilds of Wales where murder and violent death await.
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