candace robb
walking the Mean Streets of Medieval York
Owen Archer series
Start with the latest, A Choir of Crows, available from 31 May in hardcover in the UK and 2 July in hardcover and ebook worldwide… December, 1374. With the great and the good about to descend on York for the enthronement of Alexander Neville…
Kate Clifford series
Expertly recreating the social and political upheavals of late medieval Europe and the increasing power of the wealthy merchant class, acclaimed author Candace Robb introduces a new series starring Kate Clifford, a woman forged on the warring northern marches of fourteenth century England. Political…
About
Short version: I’m Candace Robb, a writer/historian engaged in creating fiction about the late middle ages with a large cast of characters with whom I enjoy spending my days. Two series, the Owen Archer mysteries and the Kate Clifford mysteries, are set in late…
Virtual Book Event on 13 August
Third Place Books in Seattle hosts a virtual book event for A Choir of Crows on Thursday afternoon 13 August, 5:00-6:00 pm PDT As it’s online, you don’t need to be in Seattle. The event is free, but you do need to sign up…
A new Archbishop of York–then and now
At the heart of the 12th Owen Archer mystery, A Choir of Crows, is the tension in the city when the corpses of three strangers are found at dawn after a heavy snowfall that isolates the city. Two of the bodies are found in…
Summertime and the living is [un]easy…yet we’re reading crime novels
In anxious times, crime novels engage us and reassure us. Seems crazy, doesn’t it? A murderer is loose on the streets. We watch the sleuth(s), the more familiar the better, sort out the clues as they race against time to prevent more deaths. Although…
