Michael Jecks is a writer of more than 20 medieval novels. This is his third installment in the Knight Templar Mystery series.
They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience...for they were
monks: warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land-until stories spread by an avaricious king who wanted their wealth for his own destroyed the order. There was one knight, however, who escaped the stake, vowing justice as he watched his innocent brothers die.
Sir Baldwin Furnshill, and his friend Simon Puttock must find the man who
killed a serf. While
visiting one of the lords in a neighboring town a servant out on an errand returns screaming about a
body that he found
hanged in a tree. Sir Baldwin Furnshill, who is the keeper of the king’s peace, must
investigate the murder. Simon Puttock must investigate this as well because he was visiting the
lord on an official obligation and now must also track down the murderer. Once at the scene Baldwin asks for the body of the man to be put on the ground and after a throughout look at the body Baldwin comes to the conclusion that the man was strangled before being hanged. This little detail Baldwin finds the most interesting because who would kill a man and then hang him. Once the corpse is brought back to the castle the lord realizes that the body is that of one of his field workers that had recently left him. During this great and exiting novel there are many twists and turns one of them is that the lord that they are visiting is also killed.
What I enjoyed about this novel was that it told me more about the code of chivalry and how people used to live in medieval days.
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