Jason Vail

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2010
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Stephen Attebrook Mysteries

1 - The Wayward Apprentice (Oct-2010)
2 - Baynard's List (Jun-2011)
3 - A Dreadful Penance (Mar-2012)
4 - The Girl in the Ice (Oct-2013)
5 - Saint Milburga's Bones (Jul-2015)
6 - Bad Money (Jun-2016)
7 - The Bear Wagon (Sep-2017)
8 - Murder at Broadstowe Manor (Dec-2018)
9 - The Burned Man (Jan-2020)
10 - The Corpse at Windsor Bridge (Jan-2020)
11 - Missing (Jul-2021)
12 - A Curious Death (Feb-2022)
13 - Bag of Bones (Aug-2022)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • The Wayward Apprentice

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 1

    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 medieval town of Ludlow. But instead, he plunges into a web of murder, espionage and intrigue.A deat...

  • Baynard's List

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 2

    A secret list identifying the supporters of both King Henry and his rival for power Simon de Montfort has disappeared following the murder of the King’s master spy in the west of England. Stephen Attebrook, the part-time deputy coroner for medieval...

  • A Dreadful Penance

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 3

    November 1262 is an unlikely season for war. But war nonetheless is coming to the March, the wild borderland between England and Wales. Not the war that most fear between the supporters of the King and the rebellious barons uniting around Simon de Mo...

  • Voyage of the Wasp

    Beware the Wasp For fans of Alternative History, Lone Star Rising is essential reading. Jason Vail joins the ranks of Pat Conroy, Harry Turtledove, and Eric Flint. George Washington is dead. The American rebellion has failed. Led by Andrew Jackson, ...

  • T.S. Wasp and the Heart of Texas

    British forces spread across the rebellious colonies, crushing all resistance now that George Washington is dead and the American army is dispersed. But defeat is merely a reckoning postponed. A few die-hards flee west into the Tennessee and the unse...

  • The Girl in the Ice

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 4

    A sudden thaw on Christmas Day reveals to Harry the beggar a dead girl of extraordinary beauty frozen beneath the snow off the pathway to Saint Laurence’s church in medieval Ludlow. It looks like murder, and medieval deputy coroner Stephen Attebroo...

  • The Outlaws

    Eustace FitzWalter, Giselle de Hafton, and Robert Attebrook could not be more different. Eustace is the bastard son of an earl, Giselle the sheltered daughter of a dotting gentry father, and Robert the son of an impoverished village carpenter. In ord...

  • Saint Milburga's Bones

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 5

    Stephen Attebrook, the deputy coroner of medieval Ludlow, wants more than anything to be part of an army gathering for an invasion of Wales, hoping for a stroke of luck that will bring him to the attention of some magnate and free him from poverty.Bu...

  • Bad Money

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 6

    Ludlow is a pleasant country town where not much happens except for the occasional murder or an attack by the savage Welsh, whose favorite pastime is the plundering of English villages when they are not fighting among themselves. Then a strange serie...



  • The Bear Wagon

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 7

    A dead girl is found floating in the River Teme at one of medieval Ludlow’s mills, drowned under mysterious circumstances that only the most addle-witted could think was anything but murder.Yet Stephen Attebrook, an impoverished knight and sometime...

  • Murder at Broadstowe Manor

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 8

    Late Summer, 1263 Sir Rogier FitzHerbert, a close supporter of Simon de Montfort, is found hanged in his locked bedchamber alongside the body of a young man at his estate outside the medieval city of Hereford. The new coroner for the county rul...

  • The Burned Man

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 9

    November - December, 1263 One of medieval Ludlow’s mills burns to the ground during a cold November night. Former coroner Stephen Attebrook walks down to the site out of curiosity the following morning like many of the town’s residents, where ...

  • The Corpse at Windsor Bridge

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 10

    1263 December - January 1364 Two weeks after the disappearance of Father Giles de Twet, the confessor to Prince Edward, the priest's rotting corpse is found in the River Thames beneath the bridge at medieval Windsor, weighted down by a block o...

  • Missing

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 11

    1264 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...

  • A Curious Death

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 12

    March 1264 The deputy constable of Oxford Castle, Miles de Dinesley, is found dead in a tub at a local bathhouse, just two alcoves away from where Stephen Attebrook, once a coroner at Ludlow, and his good friend, Gilbert Wistwode, are enjoying a s...

  • Bag of Bones

    Stephen Attebrook Mysteries - 13

    July 1264 The Ludlow beggar One-eye Dick finds the scattered bones of two dead men on a hillside north of the town -- and a precious gold ring. Hoping to make some easy money, he sells the ring to Will Thumper, a well-known criminal in town, who...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jason Vail has published 16 books.

Jason Vail does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bag of Bones, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Jason Vail, The Wayward Apprentice, was published in October 2010.

Yes. Jason Vail has 1 series.
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