Alys Clare

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2000
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Aelf Fen Mystery

1 - Out of the Dawn Light (Aug-2009)
2 - Mist Over the Water (Feb-2010)
3 - Music of the Distant Stars (Apr-2011)
4 - The Way Between the Worlds (Jan-2012)
5 - Land of the Silver Dragon (Aug-2013)
6 - Blood of the South (Jan-2015)
7 - The Night Wanderer (Jun-2016)
8 - The Rufus Spy (Feb-2018)
9 - City of Pearl (Dec-2019)
10 - The Lammas Wild (Jul-2021)

A Gabriel Taverner Mystery

1 - A Rustle of Silk (Jan-2017)
2 - The Angel in the Glass (Oct-2018)
3 - The Indigo Ghosts (Jun-2020)
4 - Magic in the Weave (Jan-2022)
5 - The Cargo From Neira (May-2023)
6 - The Chrysanthemum Tiger (Dec-2024)

A Hawkenlye Mystery

1 - Fortune Like the Moon (May-2000)
2 - Ashes of the Elements (Apr-2001)
3 - The Tavern in the Morning (Jun-2002)
4 - The Chatter of the Maidens (Nov-2001)
5 - The Faithful Dead (Nov-2002)
6 - A Dark Night Hidden (Nov-2003)
7 - Whiter Than the Lily (Nov-2004)
8 - Girl in a Red Tunic (Nov-2005)
9 - Heart of Ice (Nov-2006)
10 - The Enchanter's Forest (Apr-2008)
11 - The Paths of the Air (Jul-2008)
12 - The Joys of My Life (Jan-2009)
13 - The Rose of the World (Jul-2011)
14 - The Song of the Nightingale (Nov-2012)
15 - The Winter King (Apr-2014)
16 - A Shadowed Evil (Oct-2015)
17 - The Devil's Cup (Aug-2017)

A World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery

1 - The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits (Jun-2019)
2 - The Outcast Girls (Dec-2020)
3 - The Man in the Shadows (Aug-2022)
4 - The Stranger in the Asylum (Feb-2024)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Fortune Like the Moon

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 1

    IN A SACRED PLACE, UNHOLY PASSIONS LEAD TO MURDER... Sunlight shone on the dark crimson blood, making it shine like a jewel...thus the body of Gunnora, a young nun from Hawkenlye Abbey, is found with her throat cut. Felons have been released from ...

  • Ashes of the Elements

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 2

    A DARK FOREST CONTAINS FANTASTICAL SECRETS -- AND GRUESOME MURDERS... A series of mysterious and brutal murders deep inside the dark forest shatters the peaceful tranquility of the Hawkenlye Abbey. The sheriff of Tonbridge hastily blames the myt...

  • The Chatter of the Maidens

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 4

    The serenity of Hawkenlye Abbey has been disturbed by the arrival of a new nun and her two young sisters. Recently orphaned, Alba has left her convent in Ely to take her grieving sisters from the scene of their sorrow. Abbess Helewise is not convince...

  • The Tavern in the Morning

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 3

    At the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne's inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. But while Anne's serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber -- poisoned by a piece of pie made b...

  • The Faithful Dead

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 5

    An elderly pilgrim dies in Hawkenlye Vale. There's nothing suspicious about that: he was gravely ill when he arrived. Meanwhile Josse d'Acquin has a visit from Prince John, accompanied by his seer, and urgently seeking news of a mysterious strange...

  • A Dark Night Hidden

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 6

    As the news of Richard the Lionheart's capture reaches England, an unknown woman, also captive in a strange land, lies in a dark and dirty cell in Tonbridge. Her forehead branded and her back covered in infected weals from a brutal flogging, she lies...

  • Whiter Than the Lily

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 7

    Invited by his neighbour to meet some new friends, Josse d'Acquin is struck by the beauty of the young wife and the age gap between her and her wealthy husband. But first impressions can be deceptive, and soon a tragic death under very puzzling circu...

  • Girl in a Red Tunic

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 8

    Richard the Lionheart is still being held hostage after his crusade and his people made paupers by paying the ransom. The Abbess Helewise is struggling to keep the abbey going through a cold, brutal winter fending off starvation of her nuns and the l...

  • Heart of Ice

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 9

    January, 1194. A very sick man is making his way to Hawkenlye Abbey to take the Holy Water cure. In his delirium, the Virgin Mary appears before him--a seeming recurrence of the miraculous sighting that led to the establishment of the Abbey. As he wa...



  • The Enchanter's Forest

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 10

    In the Great Wealden Forest, power has fallen into the wrong hands. It is Midsummer 1195. A ruthlessly ambitious man has fallen deeply into debt, his desperate situation made even more difficult by the contribution he has had to pay towards King Ric...

  • The Paths of the Air

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 11

    'The latest in the Hawkenlye series... may be Clare's best yet' - Kirkus Starred Review A Hawkenlye medieval mystery Autumn 1196. A secretive stranger arrives at New Winnowlands, and Sir Josse d'Acquin guesses that he is a returning Crusader. Josse ...

  • The Joys of My Life

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 12

    skillfully plotted, delightfully written genre-bender with appealing characters, bold adventure, and dark intrigue. Top notch!' - Booklist Starred Review The latest Hawkenlye medieval mystery May 1199. Abbess Helewise has been summoned by Quee...

  • Out of the Dawn Light

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 1

    'a well-crafted plot that builds to a chilling climax' - Publishers Weekly Starred Review

    A medieval mystery from the author of the Hawkenlye series

    It is 1087 and William Rufus has just ascended the throne; England lies under a harsh n...

  • Mist Over the Water

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 2

    On Ely Island, the Normans are proclaiming their authority with the construction of a magnificent cathedral. When Morcar, fishing for eels nearby, is attacked, his cousin Lassair is sent to nurse him. Morcar tells Lassair a frightening tale of assass...

  • Music of the Distant Stars

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 3

    Very early one summer morning, Lassair slips out of her Fenland village on a deeply personal mission and discovers the body of a young woman, hidden where it has no place to be. The girl's identity is quickly discovered but, as she wonders who killed...

  • The Rose of the World

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 13

    Autumn, 1210. A year ago, King John was excommunicated--and now his men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise’s successor, worries how she is to feed the nuns under her care, let alone conduct her usual good works. ...

  • The Way Between the Worlds

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 4

    Come to me! I need you! These words bring apprentice healer Lassair awake one morning in the spring of 1092, trembling with terror. Soon Lassair is certain that one of her loved ones is in terrible danger ... and when the news comes that a nun at C...

  • The Song of the Nightingale

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 14

    In the latest Hawkenlye mystery, desperate men commit terrible crimes â€" but vengeance is on its way... Winter, 1211. Former abbess Helewise moves back to her cell near Hawkenlye Abbey to help the needy, putting a strain on her relationship with...

  • Land of the Silver Dragon

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 5

    A murder seems a hundred times more shocking when you know the victim. It seems to make the danger personal . . . Apprentice healer Lassair isn’t too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grizzly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into ...



  • The Winter King

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 15

    All Saint’s Eve, 1211. An overweight but wealthy nobleman, desperate for an heir, dies at the celebration feast he’s thrown in his own hall. A natural death . . . or at the hands of his reluctant new wife? Sabin de Gifford, an apothecary and h...

  • Blood of the South

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 6

    Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected peril When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge one morning, set on by an angry mob, she assumes involvement with her will be bri...

  • A Shadowed Evil

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 16

    February 1212. Sir Josse d’Acquin and Helewise are summoned to Southfire Hall, where Josse’s elderly uncle, Hugh, lies dying, surrounded by his children. But the pair soon discovers that Hugh’s ill health is not the only cause of distress in t...

  • The Night Wanderer

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 7

    Eleventh century Cambridge is rocked by a series of brutal murders. Called out to attend a body found on a lonely stretch of river bank, its throat torn out, apprentice healer Lassair is sceptical of the sheriff’s verdict that this was the resul...

  • A Rustle of Silk

    A Gabriel Taverner Mystery - 1

    Introducing physician-sleuth Dr. Gabriel Taverner in the first of an intriguing series of mysteries set in early 17th century Devon. 1603. Former ship’s surgeon Gabriel Taverner is attempting to re-establish himself as a country physician in ru...

  • The Devil's Cup

    A Hawkenlye Mystery - 17

    Sir Josse d’Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John in the 17th -- and final -- Hawkenlye mystery. September, 1216. A foreign army has invaded England. The country is divided. Some support the rebel barons and Prince Louis of Fran...

  • The Rufus Spy

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 8

    Apprentice healer Lassair heads on a perilous journey north in the absorbing new Aelf Fen medieval mystery. October, 1093. Two young men have been brutally beaten to death; a third viciously attacked. All three men are of similar appearance. But c...

  • The Angel in the Glass

    A Gabriel Taverner Mystery - 2

    Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner uncovers dark secrets in his small Devon village in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series. June, 1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the edge of the moor, it’s the verdic...

  • The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

    A World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery - 1

    A clever plot, two engaging sleuths, plenty of period ambience, and a satisfying ending make this a fine choice for all mystery collections Booklist Introducing private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham in the first of the brand-new Worl...

  • City of Pearl

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 9

    Apprentice healer Lassair uncovers the secrets of the mysterious City of Pearl in the compelling new Aelf Fen medieval mystery. October, 1093. At her mentor's urgent request, Lassair is accompanying Gurdyman across the sea to Spain. But why is...



  • The Indigo Ghosts

    A Gabriel Taverner Mystery - 3

    In this gripping forensic mystery set in Stuart England, Gabriel Taverner uncovers a series of shocking secrets when he's summoned by his former naval captain to investigate strange goings-on aboard his ship. October, 1604. Former ship's s...

  • The Outcast Girls

    A World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery - 2

    Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham get more than they bargain for when they take on a case in a girls' boarding school, in the latest World's End Bureau Victorian mystery. London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investi...

  • The Lammas Wild

    An Aelf Fen Mystery - 10

    Healer Lassair returns to England and uncovers a secret that puts the lives of everyone she knows in grave danger, in the final Aelf Fen medieval mystery. It is the summer of 1100, and after seven long years away in Spain, Lassair is finally goin...

  • Magic in the Weave

    A Gabriel Taverner Mystery - 4

    A theatre company bring secrets, magic and murder along with them on their 'Plague Tour', in this bewitching historical mystery starring physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner. "Plausible period detail and characters who feel real bolster the invo...

  • The Man in the Shadows

    A World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery - 3

    Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery.London, August 1881. After a difficult few months, the W...

  • The Cargo From Neira

    A Gabriel Taverner Mystery - 5

    What do a desperate woman with a secret, a dead man in a drainage ditch and a dark figure in the night have in common? Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner has to connect the dots before time runs out in this thrilling historical mystery.February, 16...

  • The Stranger in the Asylum

    A World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery - 4

    Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare.London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyll...

  • The Chrysanthemum Tiger

    A Gabriel Taverner Mystery - 6

    Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner has to face his greatest challenge yet - a serious danger from the East threatens not just his life, but everyone he loves! All aboard this adventurous historical mystery set in the early seventeenth century.March...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alys Clare has published 37 books.

The next book by Alys Clare, The Chrysanthemum Tiger, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Alys Clare, Fortune Like the Moon, was published in May 2000.

Yes. Alys Clare has 4 series.
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