[Cadfael]

This is for Arty, but feel free to make other suggestions.... I am very surprised at the number of fantasy readers, who also like this genre... maybe you could say they are fantasy... without elves, dragons, dwarves... or magic. http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

The West Country Mysteries
by Michael Jecks

1) The Last Templar
2) The Merchant's Partner
3) A Moorland Hanging
4) The Crediton Killings
5) The Abbot's Gibbet
6) The Leper's Return
7) Squire Throwleigh's Heir
8) Belladonna at Belstone
9) The Traitor of St. Giles
10) The Boy Bishop's Glovemaker


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[Arty]

MY OWN POST!!!!!! That is too cool!!

Please more more....Ive done some looking around on Amazon..you know, the lists next to the books If you like this....
Ive got some good names
Margaret Frazer....Judith Merkle Riley...Sharon Kay Penman(great! I cant wait for the next one)...I already told you about Peter Tremayne....Candace Robb....You said Michael jeck....
Any more?

As for why we read these when theres no pressing Fantasy? I think you are absolutely right. Its almost like being there.

Theres another author who writes whodunnits from ancient Egypt...Im looking at the library for one but I cant remember the author!! Death in the palace of Anubis is one title.

[Cadfael]

Paul Dohery has done some Egyptian mysteries, I have not read them yet, but he wrote a book called The Anubis Slayings, is this the one?

Another author who writes Egyptiian stuff is Christian Jacq... he wrote the hugely popular Ramases series, and is currently writing a series called The Stone of Light... I have these books, just not read them yet, but I don't think they are who-dun-its.

Arty... could you list the Amelia Peabody books please? I know it maybe a pain, but you don't mind... do you? http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Arty]

Geez.....you made me get out of my chair! OK
here it is

1 Crocodile in the Sandbank
2 The Curse of the Pharoahs
3 The Mummy Case
4 Lion in the Valley
5 The Deeds of the Disturber
6 Last Camel Died at Noon
7 The Snake The Crocodile and The Dog
8 The Hippopotamous Pool
9 Seeing a Large Cat
10 The Ape Who Guards the Balance
11 The Falcon at the Portal
12 He Shall Thunder in the Sky
13 Lord of the Silent

Fortunately I was able to check out all but the last 2 from the library. Just so you are aware, these are heavily character based and sometimes funny who-dunnits...although there was a part in Falcon where I wept uncontrollably and gasped and yelled and cursed at my book. I really loved them. They take place at the turn of the century, Amelia is an independant woman of independant means pursuing her dream of becoming an Egyptologist...all kinds of adventures ensue. They are (at first) told somewhat in the first person by Amelia as she prepares her memoirs for publishing. As you read on and get to know the characters better you can read between the lines and figure out what REALLY happened (tales in the first person are not always exactly accurate). In the later parts of the story are told by other characters. I think them very well done. Falcon was the best. But they
MUST be read in order!

BTW I finished the Candace Robb book....The Apothecary Rose....Loved it, can't wait to start the next one.
My stinking library doesnt have ANY of those authors...I might be able to special order them though. What a bunch of bullocks.

[Arty]

ok well I was just screwing around at Amazon.com and found these
Linda S Robinson: Murder in the Place of Anubis
Lauren Haney: Right Hand of Amun
Pauline Gedge: egypt stuff
Caroline Roe: Remedy for treason (Medieval Spain)

[Cadfael]

Thanks Arty, that just makes things a little easier for me... not much was coming up at Amazon.co.uk when I did a search.

[Arty]

I found this: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon/histfiction/mysteries.html

anyway, I was researching Paul Doherty and found TONS and his two pseudonyms at this site. Alot of his nom-de-plum books arent available here in the US yet. Anyway. I have quite a list of books to read!!!!

I should probably put this next bit over on the other board but quite frankly Im too lazy:
I understand Thomas Covenant is your favorite. I never really got why, I tried reading it a few years ago. Well now I understand!! I was confused....what I really read was OS Card's Alvin Maker.....so please tell me the official name of the first Thomas book so I can order it from the library.
Does the UK have a library system like here? My library sucks. Their sci/fi fantasy section is dinky, the librarian explained to me that its because they get most of their funding from religeous groups that dont approve of thet type of literature....well seperation of church and state is guaranteed in the US Constitution and the public library system is a FEDERAL territory and I amso mad I can spit and...oh, sorry. Anyway...I can order books from other libraries (it just takes forever to get them).
I mean my library haas NO Tolkein and won't get Harry Potter....and here I go again.
OK.
So.
Thanks.
Hey you can put your response up on the other boars if you want. I'll find it.

[Cadfael]

Author = Stephen Donaldson

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever

1. Lord Foul's Bane
2. The Illearth War
3. The Power That Preserves

The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

1. The Wounded Land
2. The One Tree
3. White Gold Wielder

Both sets are available in omnibus editions.

I am reading A Moorland Hanging by Michael Jecks, it is very good. I am reading the books in order of publication, and Jeck's writing style is improving with each book... The Crediton Killings next. http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

Libraries in the UK are generally run by the local council, nothing to do with the church, the fantasy section in my library is huge... I was out of work a few years ago and thus could not afford to buy books... the library kept me from going insane... I just found it so hard to take some of the books back, I am actually buying some of the ones I read now.

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[Arty]

Sorry. I was just venting...LOL. I am going to Barnes N Noble tomorrow and gosh darnnit Im buying SOMETHING.I carry around a list of books with me...right now its at 44. Of course alot of them are out of print...but Im buying one of them!! I cant wait. Monday is library day. I read 5 library books this week...Im definately getting the next Candace Robb, I know they have most of those there.
Can't wait.
BTW My library DOES have The Second Chronicles....I saw it last week. Thats how I figured out thats NOT what I read before. But naturally they dont have the first. Typical.
Thanks again

[bookfreak13]

P.C. Doherty's medieval mysteries are pretty good. I can only find one in paperback, and can't find any hardcover ones, although my library has them all. The last book of his I read, The Devil's Hunt, ended with a cliffhanger, so I am trying to find the next book in that series.
As for his Egyptian mysteries, The Anubis Slayings is probably the third book in that series. The first two are:
-the Mask of Ra
-the Horus Killings
Although I am interested in Ancient Egypt, I liked his medieval mysteries more than his Egyptian ones. Go figure.