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The early titles in Mel Starr's Hugh de Singleton series tend to go (or stay) on sale fairly often; the later titles not so much. And they're pretty expensive normally. So it's nice to see the eighth and ninth titles both go on sale at Kindle UK for £2.27 each. I've read and enjoyed most of the earlier ones - see "on sale" above .

Ashes to Ashes, #8
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0156VSF0O/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0156VSF0O/

Spoiler:

Master Hugh, Kate, and their children attend the Midsummer's Eve fire. Next morning early Hugh hears the passing bell ring from the Church of St. Beornwald, and moments later is summoned. Tenants collecting the ashes to spread upon their fields have found burned bones. Master Hugh learns of several men of Bampton and nearby villages who have gone missing recently. Most are soon found, some alive, some dead. Master Hugh eventually learns that the bones are those of a bailiff from a nearby manor. Someone has slain him and placed his body in the fire to destroy evidence of murder. Bailiffs are not popular men; they dictate labour service, collect rents, and enforce other obligations. Has this bailiff died at the hand of some angry tenant? Hugh soon discovers this is not the case. There is quite another reason for murder ...

Lucifer's Harvest, #9
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J1TLDWE
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J1TLDWE

Spoiler:

King Charles of France has announced that he is confiscating Aquitaine, and Prince Edward has sent for knights and men at arms from England to assist him in opposing the French king. Lord Gilbert Talbot is required to provide five knights, twelve squires, and twenty archers and men at arms, and wishes his surgeon - Hugh de Singleton - to travel with the party, while Hugh's wife Kate will oversee the castle. Among the party will be Sir Simon Trillowe, Hugh's old nemesis and Kate's former suitor, who had once set fire to Hugh's house. After a brawl on the streets of Oxford Sir Simon had nearly lost an ear; Hugh had sewn it back on but it had healed crooked, and Simon blamed Hugh for the disfigurement. Finding himself in the same party, Hugh resolves not to turn his back on the knight - but it is Sir Simon who should not have turned his back.