Order of Alys Clare Books

Alys Clare is the pen name of British author Elizabeth Harris, who writes historical mystery novels under this pen name. She writes the Hawkenlye Mysteries series and the Aelf Fen series. Alys was raised near where her Hawkenlye series is set in Kent. She went to school in Tonbright, and studied English at the University of Keele. Nowadays, Alys splits her time between Kent and an ancient stone cottage in Brittany, France.

Alys Clare debuted under this pen name in 1999 with the novel Fortune Like the Moon. Below is a list of Alys Clare’s books in order of when they were first released:

Publication Order of Hawkenlye Mysteries Books

Fortune Like the Moon	(1999)
Ashes of the Elements	(2000)
The Tavern in the Morning	(2000)
The Chatter of the Maidens	(2001)
The Faithful Dead	(2002)
A Dark Night Hidden	(2003)
Whiter Than the Lily	(2004)
Girl in a Red Tunic	(2005)
Heart of Ice	(2006)
The Enchanter's Forest	(2007)
The Paths of the Air	(2008)
The Joys of My Life	(2008)
The Rose of the World	(2011)
The Song of the Nightingale	(2012)
The Winter King	(2014)
A Shadowed Evil	(2015)
The Devil's Cup	(2017)

Publication Order of Aelf Fen Mysteries Books

Out of the Dawn Light	(2009)
Mist Over the Water	(2010)
Music of the Distant Stars	(2010)
The Way Between the Worlds	(2011)
Land of the Silver Dragon	(2013)
Blood of the South	(2015)
The Night Wanderer	(2016)
The Rufus Spy	(2018)
City of Pearl	(2019)
The Lammas Wild	(2021)

Publication Order of Gabriel Taverner Mystery Books

A Rustle of Silk	(2016)
The Angel in the Glass	(2018)
The Indigo Ghosts	(2020)

Publication Order of A World’s End Bureau Victorian Mystery Books

The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits	(2019)
The Outcast Girls	(2020)

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Alys Clare Synopsis: A Rustle of Silk by Alys Clare is the first book in the Gabriel Taverner series. It is 1603, and former ship’s surgeon Gabriel Taverner is looking to rebuild his career as a country physician in rural Devon. But it’s not easy to gain the locals’ trust, and a series of disturbing incidents, increasingly menacing, convinces him that at least one person does not welcome his presence. Called out to examine a partially decomposed body next to the river, Gabriel discovers that he has a personal connection to the dead man. Teaming up with Coroner Theophilus Davey to find out how the man died, Gabriel uncovers some darker aspects of the lucrative silk trade which operates from nearby Plymouth. The more he finds out, the more frighteningly apparent it becomes that the people closest to him have been keeping secrets that put their lives in danger.