A Crowner John Mystery — by Bernard Knight

Crowner John Series in Order: 15 books

  • The Sanctuary Seeker

    Book - 1

    He fought for his nation in the Crusades. Now he must prepare for a wholly different kind of battle…1194. Appointed by Richard the Lionheart as the first coroner for the county of Devon, Sir John de Wolfe, former crusader knight, rides out to the l...

  • The Poisoned Chalice

    Book - 2

    December, 1194. The well-born ladies of Exeter are not having a good week. First, Christina Rifford, the daughter of a rich merchant, is raped. Then, just months before her marriage, Lady Adele de Courcy is found dead in one of the poorest areas of t...

  • Crowner's Quest

    Book - 3

    Sometimes the most sinister of cases have the simplest of origins…Christmas Eve, 1194. County coroner Sir John de Wolfe gratefully escapes his wife Matilda’s party to examine the body of a canon who has been found hanged. Suicide is suspected, bu...

  • The Awful Secret

    Book - 4

    A terrible truth that could shake Christendom to its core.1195. Gilbert de Rideford �" Knight of the Temple of Solomon and old acquaintance of county coroner Sir John de Wolfe �" arrives in Exeter, begging for Sir John’s help.He claims to have co...

  • The Tinner's Corpse

    Book - 5

    A decapitated body, a missing person, a devastating betrayal…1195. When county coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to the bleak Devonshire moors to investigate the murder of a tin miner, he has little idea how difficult this new investigation wil...

  • The Grim Reaper

    Book - 6

    Coroner Sir John chases down a serial killer with a taste for Biblical justice in this suspenseful instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. 1195. County coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to inspect a...

  • Fear in the Forest

    Book - 7

    Who would dare kill one of the king’s foresters? Coroner Sir John investigates in this characterful instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. Devon, 1195. A tall, brown mare gallops into the sleepy v...

  • The Witch Hunter

    Book - 8

    Coroner Sir John investigates an alleged murder by witchcraft in this page-turning instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. Exeter, 1195. When a prominent guild-master falls dead across his horse, county...

  • Figure Of Hate

    Book - 9

    October, 1195. High-spirited young knights, drunken squires, pickpockets and horse thieves are pouring into Exeter for a one-day jousting tournament. Not even the discovery of a naked corpse in the River Exe can spoil the excitement. During the tour...



  • The Elixir of Death

    Book - 10

    1195. Prince John still plots to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lionheart--and in his wicked schemes he is supported by Philip of France. The French king offers to help John financially by sending him a mysterious alchemist, a Mohamme...

  • The Noble Outlaw

    Book - 11

    Exeter, 1195. During renovations at the new school in Smythen Street, funded by Crowner John's brother-in-law Richard de Revelle, a semi-skeletalized body is found in the loft of an outhouse. The coroner is called in to investigate. When the dead man...

  • The Manor of Death

    Book - 12

    When an unidentified body is discovered in the harbor town of Axmouth, the county coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute, but it was clearly no accident. In the ensuing mu...

  • Crowner Royal

    Book - 13

    It is April 1196. At the command of King Richard and his Chief Justiciar Hubert Walter, county coroner Sir John de Wolfe--along with his officer Gwyn of Polruan and clerk Thomas de Peyne--has left Exeter for London where he is to become the first Cor...

  • A Plague of Heretics

    Book - 14

    The 14th gripping murder mystery to feature 12th century coroner, Crowner John With the city of Exeter ravaged by an outbreak of the "yellow plague," Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, must divide his time between visiting his sick brother, Wi...

  • Crowner's Crusade

    Book - 15

    How a humble Devon knight became a king’s coroner: the thrilling prequel to the perennially popular Crowner John medieval mystery series. 1192. Returning from the Holy Land at the end of the Third Crusade with Richard the Lionheart, King of Engl...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

There are 15 books in the Crowner John series.

The Crowner John series does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Crowner's Crusade (Book 15), was published in January 2013.

The first book in the Crowner John series, The Sanctuary Seeker, was published in February 1998.

The Crowner John series primarily falls into the Historical Mystery genre.
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