Index of Tasters Pages
Tasters 1
THE BURNING TIMES
Jeanne Kalogridis
THE BONE-PEDLAR
Sylvian Hamilton
THE YELLOW CROSS
René Weis
Tasters 2
A DISTANT MIRROR:
Barbara Tuchman
AN ANCIENT EVIL
Paul Doherty
CONFESSIONS OF A PAGAN NUN
Kate Horsley
Tasters 3
MAGNUS
George Mackay Brown
ONE FOR SORROW
Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
KABBALAH
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Tasters 4
THE PENDRAGON BANNER
Sylvian Hamilton
THE SILVER WOLF
Alice Borchardt
SILKROADS AND SHADOWS
Susan Shwartz
Tasters 5
A TAPESTRY OF MURDERS
P.C. Doherty
A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES
Ellis Peters 
THE WOLF SISTERS
Susan Price
Tasters 6
THE WITCH OF BALINTORE
James Munro
THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR
Margaret Starbird
THE LAST OF THE TEMPLARS
William Watson
Tasters 7
MORALITY PLAY
Barry Unsworth
THE EMPRESS THEODORA
James Allan Evans
HARLEQUIN
Bernard Cornwell
Tasters 8
THE MAGICIAN'S DEATH
Paul Doherty
THE CLERKENWELL TALES
Peter Ackroyd
A MOSAIC OF SHADOWS
Tom Harper
Tasters 9
THE THIRD WITCH
Rebecca Reisert
THE WAY OF WYRD
Brian Bates
DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST
Juliet Marillier
Tasters 10
THE FIREBRAND
Debra A. Kemp
What Life Was Like
IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Susanna Gregory
Tasters 11
A TOURNAMENT OF MURDERS
Paul Doherty
VAGABOND
Bernard Cornwell
MIRABILIS
Suzann Cokal
Tasters 12
THE WOLF KING
Alice Borchardt
DANELAW
Susan Squires
THE LEPER OF SAINT GILES
Ellis Peters
Tasters 13
THE SERVANT'S TALE 
Margaret Frazer J
SON OF THE SHADOWS 
Juliet Marillier
THE SAXON SHORE 
Jack Whyte
Tasters 14
GHOSTLY MURDERS 
Paul Doherty
CHAUCER
Richard West
THE TAVERN IN THE MORNING 
Alys Clare
Tasters 15
HERETIC 
Bernard Cornwell
KATHERINE
Anya Seton
FOR THE LOVE OF PHILAE
Christian Jacq


"My destiny lay in fishing in the deepest depths of the Middle Ages for what nobody else had yet perceived there."
Jean Markale, Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars
"At the foot of Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, the three spinners mocked us."  Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom
Tasters 16
THE REAL MIDDLE-EARTH 
Brian Bates
CORPSE CANDLE
Paul Doherty
THE DARKLING PLAIN
Douglas R. Mason
Tasters 17
THE DRAGON QUEEN 
Alice Borchardt
THE SPIRE
William Golding
THE BOOK OF SALADIN
Tariq Ali
Tasters 18
CHILD OF THE PROPHECY 
Juliet Marillier
THE SANCTUARY SPARROW
Ellis Peters
THE COURT OF THE MIDNIGHT KING
Freda Warrington
Tasters 19
THE WHITE COMPANY
Arthur Conan Doyle
DANSE MACABRE 
Aubrey Burl
THE JESTER
James Petterson & Andrew Gross
Tasters 20
THE HANGMAN'S HYMN
Paul Doherty
A GIFT OF SANCTUARY
Candace Robb
PIRATES & THE LOST TEMPLAR FLEET 
David Hatcher Childress
Tasters 21
RUMI'S DAUGHTER
Muriel Maufroy
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
Ken Follett
OPHELIA'S REVENGE
Rebecca Reisert
Tasters 22
THE RAVEN WARRIOR 
Alice Borchardt
AVALON
Anya Seton
THE LAST KINGDOM
Bernard Cornwell
Tasters 23
A HAUNT OF MURDER 
Paul Doherty
THE FORT AT RIVER'S BEND 
Jack Whyte
THE TEMPLARS AND THE GRAIL 
Karin Ralls
Tasters 24
THE GLEEMAIDEN 
Sylvian Hamilton
TWO FOR JOY 
Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
THE BASTARD'S TALE
Margaret Frazer
Tasters 25
THE TAINTED RELIC
Susanna Gregory
CAMELOT'S SHADOW
Sarah Zettel
A PLAY OF ISAAC 
Margaret Frazer
Tasters 26
A PERSONAL DEVIL
Roberta Gellis
A PLAY OF DUX MORAUD 
Margaret Frazer
THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE
Tasters 27
PETER ABELARD
Helen Waddell
PAGAN'S CRUSADE
Catherine Jinks
BYZANTIUM'S CROWN
Susan Shwartz
Tasters 28
THIRTEEN-CARD SPREAD
James Munro
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF HISTORICAL DETECTIVES
Mike Ashley
BADGER'S MOON
Peter Tremayne
Tasters 29
THE TEMPLAR'S PENANCE
Michael Jecks
THE WIDOW'S TALE
Margaret Frazer
THREE FOR A LETTER 
Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
Tasters 30
BLOODFEUD
Richard Fletcher
THE LABYRINTH
Kate Mosse
CAMELOT'S HONOUR
Sarah Zettel


Tasters 31
THE CUP OF GHOSTS
Paul Doherty
THE BURGUNDIAN'S TALE
Kate Sedley
MAMMOTH BOOK OF HISTORICAL WHODUNNITS
Mike Ashley
Tasters 32
VIKING: ODIN'S CHILD
Tim Severin
THE PLAGUE LORD
Paul Doherty
OTHER GODS 
Barbara Reichmuth Geisler
Tasters 33
THE LAST COMPANION
Patrick McCormack
FOUR FOR A BOY 
Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS
Tom Harper
Tasters 34
FORTUNE LIKE THE MOON
Alys Clare
MURDER THROUGH THE AGES
Ed. Maxim Jakubovski
THE ILLUMINATOR
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Tasters 35
THE LEPER'S BELL
Peter Tremayne
BONE OF CONTENTION
Roberta Gellis
THE PALE HORSEMAN
Bernard Cornwell
Tasters 36
THE CHAPEL OF BONES
Peter Tremayne
THE LAST LEGION
Valerio Masimo Manfredi
KINGDOM OF THE GRAIL
Judith Tarr
Tasters 37
THE LAST MERMAID
Shana Abe 
WHITER THAN THE LILY
Alys Clare
VIKING: SWORN BROTHER
Tim Severin
Tasters 38
A MORTAL BANE
Roberta Gellis
THE ELIXIR OF DEATH
Bernard Knight
MASTER OF SOULS
Peter Tremayne
Tasters 39
THE HUNTERS TALE
Margaret Frazer
BRITAIN AD
Francis Pryor
A DARK NIGHT HIDDEN
Alys Clare
Tasters 40
THE MEDIEVAL COOKBOOK
Maggie Black
THE ABBOT'S GIBBET
Michael Jecks
SUTTON HOO
Paul Dowswell
Tasters 41
RITE OF CONQUEST
Judith Tarr
THE LEPER'S RETURN
Michael Jecks
SWORD OF SHAME
The Medieval Murderers
Taster's 42
THE PICTS AND THE SCOTS
Laing
THE MAD MONK OF GIDLEIGH
Michael Jecks
VIKING: KING'S MAN
Tim Severin
Taster's 43
THE CHATTER OF THE MAIDENS
Alys Clare
THE FLOWERING OF THE ROSE
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
A PLAY OF KNAVES
Margaret Frazer
Taster's 44
CRUEL AS THE GRAVE
Sharon Penman
THE WHITE ROSE TURNED TO BLOOD
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
THE SORCERER: METAMORPHOSIS
Jack Whyte

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Collier - Godiva
Godiva (or Godgifu ) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend , rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England in order to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name " Peeping Tom " for a voyeur comes from later versions of this legend in which a man named Tom watched her ride and was struck blind or dead.