Third in this series. It's been awhile since I read the earlier two, but I thought I'd catch up in this series of the one-eyed Templar Knight, returned from years of confinement in the Crusades and now solving murder mysteries in 1201, aided by his mute Italian boy sidekick Gianni, I am reminded...
When a squire's body is found hanging from a tree, Templar Bascot de Marins is given the task of unearthing the truth before an unprecedented meeting of kings at Lincoln Castle.
A Templar treasure for mystery readers! An honorable-yet world-weary-Knight Templar solves the mysteries of Medieval England. After eight years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on a sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to...
They had been fetched from the cells by two guards and made to stand in the hall before the earl and Bascot while they were questioned. De Ponte had been vociferous in his protest at their arrest, his red beard bristling with indignation as he had declared that as an influential burgess of the to...
“Dickon was right. I should have told him of Aubrey’s delusion. None of this would have happened if I had done so.” “That is not necessarily so,” Nicolaa said tartly. “If he was as adamant as you say about finding his mother, it would not have been long before he found a w...
“I still don’t believe that any of them, especially Sven or Joan, are capable of such grisly acts,” Thorson said, leaning back in his chair and lacing his fingers over his swelling paunch as he mused. “On the other hand, if it was a Templar knight that had been murdered, and it was known he was t...
His questioning of the stonecutters had not gained any information, and Cerlo’s passionate words made it seem unlikely the mason had robbed the clerk’s corpse. He felt frustrated. It was as though the elusive facts he sought had been buried with Brand and Fardein’s bodies underneath a screen of s...
MacHeth had sent a message the night before to the bishop and Lady Nicolaa advising them of d’Arderon’s intent to send the brothers out on patrol. The eight soldiers of Christ, he told them, would split into pairs, each comprising a knight and one of the men-at-arms and, in rotation, visit each o...