Many authors have written medieval murder mysteries, including me! In The Irish Bride, my latest medieval mystery, a monk is found dead within moments of Gwen and Gareth’s arrival in Ireland. As medieval detectives, how do they go about finding the killer? What can they possibly determine forensically without laboratories,… Read More »Medieval Forensics by Sarah Woodbury
Anthony Bacon (1558-1601) was Francis Bacon’s full brother and one of the few people we know he truly loved. They were close friends throughout Anthony’s life. That’s his only known portrait on the cover of my new book, The Spymaster’s Brother. The ideal biographer Francis Bacon is the subject of… Read More »Anthony Bacon by Anna Castle
As one reader put it, my After Cilmeri series turns the Statutes of Rhuddlan on its head, changing established history so that both Wales and Scotland remain independent of England in the Middle Ages. In our history, King Edward of England had his eyes on Wales for thirty years before the… Read More »Wales and Scotland: War, Rebellion, and Edward I by Sarah Woodbury
When I started research on Scholarly Pursuits, the sixth novel in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, my only agenda was to take some of my series characters across the San Francisco Bay to solve a crime on the University of California campus at Berkeley. I was primarily curious about… Read More »When Men will be Boys: Masculinity and Late 19th Century Fraternities by M. Louisa Locke
I rarely come out as a writer. It’s too fraught. Someone in the room has a friend of a friend who’s an author and whose novel was published by a BIIIIIIG PUBLISHER and it’s a runaway bestseller making a motza. When pushed for details, like a title or nome-de-plume, they’re usually… Read More »Keep It In The Closet by G. S. Johnston