Gareth & Gwen - Enigmes médiévales - La série

The Bard’s Daughter is a 22,000 word prequel novella to the Gareth and Gwen Medieval Mysteries: As a bard’s daughter, Gwen has spent her life traveling from castle to castle and village to village with her family, following the music. In the winter of 1141, Gwen’s family is contracted to provide the entertainment for the coming-of-age celebration of a lord's son. But before the celebration can begin, Gwen’s father is found over the body of his friend, with a harp string as the murder weapon and blood on his hands. With the lord of the castle uninterested in finding the true killer, it is up to Gwen to clear her father’s name before her father’s music is silenced … forever.

Cinq ans après le jour où, tombé en disgrâce, Gareth a disparu de la vie de Gwen, celle-ci le retrouve penché sur le corps d'un roi assassiné lors d'une embuscade. Bien que ce ne soient pas exactement les retrouvailles dont la jeune femme a rêvé, tous deux vont joindre leurs forces pour résister aux intrigues et aux trahisons qui pourrissent l'atmosphère de la cour du roi du Gwynedd. Et lorsque Gareth est accusé du meurtre, Gwen doit continuer seule sa recherche de la vérité, avec l'aide d'alliés improbables venus de loin, jusqu'à découvrir une conspiration qui secouera les fondations même du Pays de Galles.

Gareth est de retour du sud et Gwen constate avec bonheur que le lien qui les unit est plus fort que jamais, mais les nuages s'accumulent au-dessus de la cour d'Owain Gwynedd, roi du nord du Pays de Galles. La loyauté de sa future belle-famille est douteuse, les seigneurs normands s'agitent sur sa frontière orientale et parmi les invités venus assister à son mariage rôde un assassin sans états d'âme. Gareth et Gwen doivent repousser leur propre mariage pour se lancer à la poursuite de l'assassin, faire le tri entre vérité et mensonge, entre amis et ennemis et éclaircir le mystère avant que le roi Owain et sa future épouse ne soient à leur tour victimes de leur hôte indésirable.

Mai 1144. Quelques mois à peine après leur mariage, Gareth et Gwen accompagnent le prince Hywel du Gwynedd dans une mission diplomatique en Angleterre. Dès leur arrivée, cependant, cette mission prend un tour inattendu et une nouvelle affaire de meurtre leur tombe (au sens littéral) dessus. De quelque côté qu'ils se tournent, leurs investigations se heurtent aux difficultés engendrées par la guerre civile et les alliances incertaines et mouvantes au sein de la cour du comte Robert de Gloucester. Pourtant, le temps leur est compté pour résoudre le meurtre et révéler au grand jour un complot qui menace non seulement leur vie mais également celle du futur roi d'Angleterre.Meurtres, intrigues, trahisons s'enchevêtrent dans Le Quatrième Cavalier, le troisième livre de la série Gareth & Gwen – Enigmes Médiévales.Ordre de lecture : Le Preux Chevalier, Un Hôte Indésirable, Le Quatrième Cavalier.

Hallowmas 1144. With the harvest festival approaching, Gareth has returned from fighting in the south, hoping for a few months of peace with Gwen before the birth of their first child. But when an innocent foray to the beach turns up the murdered body of Prince Hywel’s long lost cousin, a woman thought to have run away with a Dane five years earlier, it is Gareth and Gwen who are charged with discovering her killer. The trail has long since gone cold, or so Gareth and Gwen think, until their investigation threatens to expose dangerous truths that everyone else from king to killer would prefer to keep buried. No secret is safe, and no man, whether lord or peasant, can escape the spirit of Hallowmas in The Fallen Princess, the fourth Gareth and Gwen medieval mystery. Other books in the series include The Bard’s Daughter, a prequel novella, and three novels: The Good Knight, The Uninvited Guest, and The Fourth Horseman.

August 1146. Prince Hywel has called all the bards of Wales to him for a music festival to mark the third anniversary of his rule over Ceredigion. He has invited all the lords of Wales too, including his father, his uncle, and his neighbor to the south, King Cadell. But with the highborn also come the low: thieves, spies, and other hangers-on. And when a murderer strikes as the festival starts, Gareth and Gwen are charged with discovering his identity--before the death of a peasant shakes the throne of a king. The Unlikely Spy is the fifth Gareth and Gwen Medieval Mystery. Other books in the series include: The Good Knight, The Uninvited Guest, The Fourth Horseman, and The Fallen Princess.

November 1146. War has come to Gwynedd at the hands of Ranulf, Earl of Chester, who seeks to gain a foothold in Wales against the day peace finally comes to England. On the eve of King Owain’s counter-assault on Mold Castle, the body of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Gwen is discovered buried in someone else’s grave. Even in the midst of war, murder must be investigated, and it falls to Gareth and Gwen to bring the guilty to justice. When their investigation uncovers not only another body, but also treason at the highest levels of King Owain’s court, Gareth and Gwen must come to terms with unprecedented treachery—and a villain whose crimes can never be forgiven. The Lost Brother is the sixth Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mystery.