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UNWIN, Richard

The Roaring Tide

Published 2014, Paperback

Richard III is providing England with fair and just government but his Lancastrian enemies are supporting Henry Tudor’s claim to the throne. Richard sends Laurence his armourer to Brittany to encourage Tudor’s ambition so that Richard can defeat him on the battlefield. However, Tudor wins the battle but is faced with the emergence of Richard of York. Laurence is called to his side having been one of those who previously helped him out of England.

UNWIN, Richard

The Doom Assigned

Published 2015, Paperback

Richard III has won the battle of Bosworth but Henry Tudor has escaped. Robert de la Halle, son of the king’s armourer is sent to trace him.

UPSON, Nicola

An Expert in Murder

Published 2008, Hardback

It is 1934 and Josephine Tey is travelling to London for the final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux. Her arrival coincides with a murder which she decides to investigate alongside Detective Inspector Penrose, who will become her model for Inspector Grant.

Banner image of King Richard III’s Book of Hours (MS 474f. 7v) reproduced by kind permission of Lambeth Palace Library.