I was asked by Shepherd.com, a great book recommendation service for readers, if I might be able to offer up some novels that would appeal to those looking for epic adventures set in medieval times. I was happy to rise to the task and here are my choices. Click on the link below, have a look over at the web site, and discover something new!
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The thrilling final installment to the Swords of the White Rose trilogy Unfinished Business… and a soul in search of redemption Europe, Spring 1486 Facing a grisly death if captured alive, veteran mercenary and Plantagenet henchman Sir John Hawker and his unlikely band of misfits return to Venice to attempt […]
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The sequel to Hawker and the King’s Jewel is out July 6th Very pleased to say the new Hawker novel, the second in the Swords of the White Rose series, is wending its way through the final stages of proof-reading and will be published by Canelo Books on 6 July […]
My latest novel, Hawker and the King’s Jewel (Canelo Adventure 2022), begins where you might expect a book about the Yorkist dynasty would end: the battle of Bosworth Field and the death of Richard III. The novel has only one battle in it and this is the one, a battle […]
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I have a new short story out this week in Mystery Tribune called “Shooting the Breeze”. It’s set in Providence, Rhode Island in the summer of 1964 and centers on two recent retirees who are neighbors in a working-class section of Providence called Olneyville. Sitting together on a sweltering morning […]