Coming August 2026

By the winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and a South African Literary Award

In the year 1292, a dying Flemish bishop sends for Mechthild, a death nurse, to tend to him in his final days. She is not a nun, but a beguine, a woman who has escaped both the convent and marriage to live (mostly) as she pleases.

But the bishop’s hope of a dignified death is cut short when a blade is plunged into his back. For her final act of palliative care, Mechthild will work to expose his murderer. Claire Robertson’s medieval murder mystery The Good Death is as thrilling as it is cerebral.