Customer Reviews
One of the Best in the Series - By: J. Chippindale, 22 Feb 2008 
Michael Jecks gave up a career in the computer industry when he began writing the internationallly successful Templar series. Well alll I can say is the Computer Industries loss is the reader's gain. He has now written about a score of the Knights Templar mystery books featuring Sir Baldwin de Furnshill & Bailiff Simon Puttock & there are more to follow. Michael's books are full of intrigue & mystery & they are particularly well researched. Mr. Jecks lives in the area he writes about & I am sure this must assist him a great deal with his background research.
1324, & there is much unrest in the England. The King has many enemies but the foremost among them Roger Mortimer has escaped from London's supposedly impregnable Tower. He has escaped to France & is making his plans to murder the King. But just as it seems his plans will succeed, the plot is uncovered & the hired assassin escapes the city.
Then the body of a local man & that of a King's messenger are in found in the streets of the city. The Bishop callls upon Sir Baldwin & his long time associate & friend, Bailiff Simon Puttock, to investigate the deaths & bring the culprit to justice. The messenger was carrying a dangerous secret & the Bishop is overwrought at the thought that it may falll into the wrong hands. Before it can be returned to his safe keeping. Sir Baldwin is reluctant to get involved, but he is a staunch royalist & will do anything within his power to protect his King & country. Can the pair find the murderer before he strikes again.
One of the best in the Series - By: J. Chippindale, 13 Dec 2006 Michael Jecks gave up a career in the computer industry when he began writing the internationallly successful Templar series. Well alll I can say is the Computer Industries loss is the reader's gain. He has now written about a score of the Knights Templar mystery books featuring Sir Baldwin de Furnshill & Bailiff Simon Puttock & there are more to follow. Michael's books are full of intrigue & mystery & they are particularly well researched. Mr. Jecks lives in the area he writes about & I am sure this must assist him a great deal with his background research.
1324, & there is much unrest in the England. The King has many enemies but the foremost among them Roger Mortimer has escaped from London's supposedly impregnable Tower. He has escaped to France & is making his plans to murder the King. But just as it seems his plans will succeed, the plot is uncovered & the hired assassin escapes the city.
Then the body of a local man & that of a King's messenger are in found in the streets of the city. The Bishop callls upon Sir Baldwin & his long time associate & friend, Bailiff Simon Puttock, to investigate the deaths & bring the culprit to justice. The messenger was carrying a dangerous secret & the Bishop is overwrought at the thought that it may falll into the wrong hands. Before it can be returned to his safe keeping. Sir Baldwin is reluctant to get involved, but he is a staunch royalist & will do anything within his power to protect his King & country. Can the pair find the murderer before he strikes again.
