Hill of Bones

The Medieval Murderers

A small group of historical mystery writers, all members of the Crime Writers’ Association, who promote their work by giving informal talks and discussions at libraries, bookshops and literary festivals.

Bernard Knight is a former Home Office pathologist and professor of forensic medicine who has been publishing novels, non-fiction, radio and television drama and documentaries for more than forty years. He writes the highly regarded Crowner John series of historical mysteries, based on the first coroner for Devon in the twelfth century.

Ian Morson is the author of an acclaimed series of historical mysteries featuring the thirteenth-century Oxford-based detective, William Falconer, and a brand-new series featuring Venetian crime solver, Nick Zuliani.

Philip Gooden is the author of the Nick Revill series, a sequence of historical mysteries set in Elizabethan and Jacobean London, during the time of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. The latest titles are Sleep of Death and Death of Kings. He also writes 19th century mysteries, most recently The Durham Deception, as well as non-fiction books on language. Philip was chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association in 2007-8.

Susanna Gregory is the author of the Matthew Bartholomew series of mystery novels, set in fourteenth-century Cambridge. In addition, she writes a series set in Restoration London, featuring Thomas Chaloner; the most recent book is A Murder on London Bridge. She also writes historical mysteries under the name of ‘Simon Beaufort’.

Karen Maitland’s novel Company of Liars, a dark mystery thriller set at the time of the Black Death, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award 2010. Her latest medieval thriller is The Gallows Curse, a tale of treachery and sin during the brutal reign of King John.