Sharan Newman Books and Novels

 


To Wear the White Cloak by Sharan Newman

The seventh installment of Sharan Newman's critically acclaimed Catherine LeVendeur medieval mystery series, To Wear the White Cross continues the story of this most remarkable woman and her unique family. Set against the backdrop of twelfth century France, Catherine's life is both a reflection of the bonds placed upon a woman in her society and the ways in which a strong personality could triumph and succeed in spite of those strictures. Catherine is an independent spirit, fiercely loyal to both her faith and her family, and that loyalty will be sorely tested when a Knight Templar is discovered brutally murdered after Catherine and her family return to France after a long absence. Catherine's closely held secret about her family's Jewish roots are threatened to be revealed and ultimately it falls upon Catherine to discover the person who would kill a soldier of God and why Catherine's family would be targeted in such a horrendous fashion. Filled with fascinating details of medieval life and the intricate interplay between the Christian and Jewish cultures of the time, To Wear the White Cross is a compelling mystery and a riveting historical rolled into one.

 

 

The Wandering Arm by Sharan Newman

In the third installment of the much-lauded medieval mystery series featuring Catherine LeVendeur, religious persecution and murder force Catherine to come to terms with her family's Jewish heritage.

 

The Devil's Door by Sharan Newman

Treating a brutally beaten countess at the Convent of the Paraclete, novice Catherine LeVendeur is frustrated at the woman's refusal to name her attackers and is forced to choose between justice and the life promised to her by a forbidden lover.

 

The Difficult Saint by Sharan Newman

In The Difficult Saint, Sharan Newman returns to medieval France and the murder-haunted Catherine LeVendeur, heroine of this acclaimed series. After a harrowing stay with Catherine's in-laws in Scotland, Catherine and her husband, Edgar, have returned home with their two children to live a life of peace at last--or so they hope. But soon the safety of those they love is questioned as anti-Jewish sentiment begins to grow in Paris. Raised Catholic by her father, Hubert, who poses as a Christian while practicing Judaism in secret, Catherine fears that the violence of the most recent Crusade will repeat itself, victimizing members of her family. But before she can put too much thought into that, fate interrupts.
Catherine's estranged younger sister, Agnes, has returned to Paris with the news that she has been promised in marriage to a German lord. Bitter about their religious differences, Agnes wants no part of Catherine or Hubert--except for the sizable dowry that Hubert can provide. When Catherine and Hubert arrange for Agnes to be escorted to Germany with her dowry, they assume that they have seen the last of her.
But then one of Agnes's escorts returns to Paris with terrible news: Agnes's new husband appears to have been murdered by poisoning, and Agnes is the prime suspect. In spite of their differences, Catherine believes in her innocence, and knows that she must do everything she can to save her sister's life. And when Catherine and her brood travel to Germany to begin sleuthing in a dangerously anti-Semitic climate, it becomes clear that Catherine and Edgar's long-dreamt-of life of peace remains in the distant future--if they live to see it at all.

 

Strong As Death by Sharan Newman

During a pilgrimage to the monastery of Santiago de Compostela, Catherine LeVendeur and her Saxon husband, Edgar, encounter mad monks, unusual and less-than-penitent crusaders, and an enigmatic woman whose past binds them together in a bizarre, potentially deadly game of chance.

 

Crime Through Time by Miriam Grace Monfredo (Editor), Sharan Newman (Editor)

An anthology of historical mystery tales spans the centuries from ancient Rome to Victorian England and features twenty-one stories by Anne Perry, Steven Saylor, Edward Marston, Carola Dunn, Laurie King, Peter Lovesey, Maan Meyers, and other notable authors.

 

Crime Through Time II by Miriam Grace Monfredo (Editor), Sharan Newman (Editor)

Named a Top Ten Paperback by "The Poisoned Pen", this timeless new collection of historical mysteries features stories by award-winning writers, including Robert Barnard, Jan Burke, Michael Coney, Dianne Day, Carole Nelson Douglas, Elizabeth Foxwell, Edward D. Hoch, Nancy Kress, Gillian Linscott, Edward Marston, Miriam Grace Monfredo, Maam Nyers, Sharan Newman, Anne Perry, John Maddox Roberts, Laura Joh Rowland, Walter Satterthwait, Sarah Smith, and William Wu.

 

Cursed in the Blood by Sharan Newman

The new novel in Newman's popular and richly authentic historical series, starring French medieval heroine Catherine LeVendeur. Separated from her husband on a visit to meet his family, Catherine finds herself a stranger in a strange land--searching for her husband and for refuge in a war-torn country.

 

 


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