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Michael Jecks

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Michael Jecks is an English author of historical crime fiction, best known for the long-running Knights Templar Mysteries. The series follows former Templar Sir Baldwin Furnshill and his friend Simon Puttock through murder investigations in fourteenth-century England, particularly Devon and Dartmoor. Jecks left a career in the computer industry to concentrate on writing and medieval history, and his fiction combines detailed period research with traditional detective plots, political intrigue and the violence of medieval society.

Beyond the Templar novels, Jecks has written the Hundred Years’ War trilogy beginning with Fields of Glory, the Jack Blackjack mysteries set in Tudor England, the Vintener series and several contemporary thrillers. He founded the collaborative historical-fiction group Medieval Murderers and has served on the committees of both the Crime Writers’ Association and the Historical Writers’ Association. His novel The Death Ship of Dartmouth was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

Periods and events

Anglo-Saxon Englandc. 476–1066 CE Arthurian BritainLegendary setting, conventionally c. 5th–6th centuries CE Battle of Crécy1346 CE Black Death1347–1351 CE Early Medievalc. 476–1000 CE First Crusade1095–1099 CE Invasion of England and Deposition of Edward II1326–1327 CE Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE Medieval Cathedrals and Townsc. 1000–1500 CE Medieval Devon and the West Country under Edward II1307–1327 CE Medieval England after the Norman Conquest1071–1300 CE Norse Exploration of the North Atlanticc. 870–1100 CE Post-Roman Britainc. 410–600 CE Reign of Edward II1307–1327 CE Siege of Antioch20 October 1097–28 June 1098 CE Siege of Calais1346–1347

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Michael Jecks (5 series)

The Vintaine in Order

by Michael Jecks 5 books 4.3(8,205)

The Vintaine series follows Berenger Fripper and a small company of English archers through the changing phases of the Hundred Years’ War. The first three novels cover Edward III’s 1346 campaign, the siege of Calais and the Black Prince’s march to Poitiers; later volumes return to the survivors…

The Holy Wars in Order

by Michael Jecks 2 books 4.3(218)

The Holy Wars series follows a mixed company of pilgrims who leave France after the crusading preaching of 1096. Odo treats the expedition as proof of his religious authority, while his brother Fulk, Sybille, Jeanne and Guillemette confront the journey for different reasons, including duty, escape, survival and…

Last Templar Mysteries in Order

by Michael Jecks 32 books 4.2(20,880)

The Last Templar Mysteries follow Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, a survivor of the suppression of the Knights Templar, and his friend Simon Puttock, a Devon bailiff. Most of the sequence is set between 1316 and 1327, when the two men investigate deaths in villages, monasteries, ports and cathedral…

Bloody Mary Tudor Mysteries in Order

by Michael Jecks 9 books 4.0(1,219)

The Bloody Mary Tudor Mysteries follow Jack Blackjack, a London cutpurse who is drawn into paid intelligence work and assassination during the reign of Mary I. Beginning with Wyatt’s Rebellion in 1554 and continuing to the final months of Mary’s rule in 1558, the novels move between London,…

Medieval Murderers in Order

by various authors 10 books 3.9(3,850)

The Medieval Murderers books are collaborative historical-mystery anthologies in which a shared relic, manuscript, legend, place or moral theme links separate crimes across centuries. Each contributor writes an episode using characters from an established series or a new historical setting, so the central object accumulates competing meanings as…

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