[Joan & Matthew Stock 01] • The Player's Boy is Dead

The first book in the Joan and Matthew Stock mystery series set in Elizabethan England.

They were a small player’s troupe, come to perform for a lord and his lady…

And none of the rag-tag group shone more than the young players’ boy, with his flaxen hair and fine features. Indeed, he had won a scullery maid’s heart, and it was she, at cock’s crow, who went searching for him in the stables where he slept. But, alas, she found him dead—murdered in a most gruesome way. And now Constable Matthew Stock must search high and low, from a Lord’s castle to a disreputable inn, to find the person who dealt such an ungodly blow…