The Weaver's Inheritance

I like historical fiction, and authors like Kate Sedley who can maintain a good quality for 20 books with the same hero. Even if we all like some books better than others, it is quite an accomplishment. The whole series of Roger the Chapman takes place in the second half of the 15th century, mainly in Britain and principally in Bristol and London. It is well done. The characters have flesh. I am comfortable with the historical details, and the problem posed to the amateur investigator is usually interesting. If you want to read them in order, start with Death and the Chapman.

Eighth in the Roger the Chapman medieval mystery series in which a ghost from Roger’s past pops up. The young man, the weaver’s son, whom Roger had proclaimed dead—though never having seen his body—when he investigated six years previously, now turns up alive and recovering from an amnesiac shock. The Alderman Weaver, so anxious to have his son back, accepts him wholeheartedly—but others, including the boy’s sister, aren’t so sure, though there is at least a passing resemblance and he has some knowledge of the family history and details of family life—and what he can’t recall, he writes off to his still sketchy memory. Is it really Clement Weaver, back from the dead, or a vile impostor, coached by one of the jealous show more family members to seem like Clement in order to claim the wealthy father’s inheritance? Roger investigates, of course. Love this series! show less