Series: Owen Archer
by Author Candace Robb
The Riddle of St. Leonard's (1998)
Plague has returned. Bad things are afoot at St Lawrence hospital. The Archbishop lends Owen to his nephew to get to the bottom of the mess at the hospital. There are thefts and deaths of pensioners including Bess's uncle. There is also a small girl whose family has died that Magda and Owen a...
A Spy for the Redeemer (2003)
Another good Owen Archer story. Set in 1370, during the reign of Edward III, Owen (who works for the Archbishop of York) is in Wales in the holy city of St David's.In this one Owen is in Wales investigating a murder whilst Lucie - back in York - is having to content with a spiteful customer; an a...
The Guilt of Innocents (2015)
I feel I may be being slightly unfair to Robb since I went straight into the fourth book of the series and then onto this, the ninth book, without reading the ones in between. Perhaps that would have made me enjoy this one more.It was good to see that some of the characters I loved from the fourt...
The Cross-Legged Knight (2004)
Owen is home and has been for a while. Lucie has lost a pregnancy due to a fall and is quite depressed even some time later worrying most everyone. A friend's father has died in captivity after the ransom to the French went awry. The family blames the Bishop of Winchester and Owen is forced to ...
The King's Bishop (1997)
"The King's Bishop" is part of the Owen Archer series by Candace Robb. Owen Archer is one of my favorite fictional characters. This one-eyed former archer turned apothecary apprentice lives in the 1300's in England. He is also a spy for the archbishop of York and as such finds himself on many adv...
A Gift of Sanctuary (2000)
Owen and Geoffrey Chaucer are sent on a mission for the Duke of Lancaster ostensibly to check on fortifications in Wales, but really a retainers son has called his father to account for marrying a suspected traitor's daughter. Brother Michaelo and Sir Robert come along on a pilgrimage. The man ...
The Lady Chapel (1995)
Really good medieval mystery. One of the reasons I like this series is that it includes the church, politics, and well-to-do people but it's mostly about merchants, musicians, everyday soldiers and people of that class. You don't get a lot of medieval books like that, that give yo a feel for how ...
The Apothecary Rose (1994)
I read this book expecting a mystery/crime story and as a representative of that group it must be said that it kind of sucked. The story itself was predictable, and didn't even pretend very hard at being either a puzzle or even a psychological view of a crime (not that I like those). So really, t...