The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a group of enthusiasts who research and selectively re-create the Middle Ages for knowledge and for fun. At their events, they wear historical clothing and call each other by medieval-style character names. Once a year, they meet to display their handiwork and stage a mock medieval war. In Murder at the War, policeman Peter Brichter (known in the SCA as Stefan von Helle) and his wife, Kori (known as Katherine of Tretower) go to the war for the fun. But the revelry turns deadly serious when a known troublemaker, Thorstane Shieldbreaker, is actually murdered. The local police, anxious to find the culprit, turn their attention to Peter and Kori as suspects once they find the two have quarreled with Thorstane. It is up to Lord Stefan and Lady Katherine, with their inside knowledge of the SCA, to clear their names and solve the crime.
Thoroughly unsentimental and at the head of the Charter Police Department because of it, Detective Peter Brichter reopens a fourteen-year-old murder case while investigating local drug pushers, opening a criminal can of worms in the process. Reprint.
Investigating a case of arson involving Crazy Dave's TV and appliance store, Sergeant Peter Brichter discovers that Crazy Dave and his own partner have mob connections. Reprint.
The sole surviving member of Detective Peter Brichter's wife's family is murdered soon after arriving for the Brichter's Christmas party at her former home, Tretower, where the remaining guests reveal some unpalatable secrets about Tretower's past
Kori Brichter is ecstatic when her Arabian horses place second in a prestigious contest, but when a brutal trainer is murdered, she teams up with her husband, a police detective, to solve the crime. Original.