Dispensation of Death, Michael Jecks
Dispensation of Death, Michael Jecks
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Dispensation of Death

Author: Michael Jecks

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 01/01/2008

Synopsis

1325: England is a hotbed of paranoia under the reign of the increasingly unpredictable Edward II and his lover, Sir Hugh le Despenser. When the Queen’s lady-in-waiting is slaughtered and a man’s body, hideously mutilated, is discovered behind the throne, the King demands to be avenged. Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, an experienced investigator of murders, is appointed to track down the killer, aided by his friend, Simon Puttock. In an age of corruption, when the king’s friends can use torture, blackmail and murder to promote their ends, a rural knight and bailiff must fight to stay alive.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

This was the first book where I had to get into the politics of the day from the perspective of London. It was hard to move my characters from their homes in Devon, but it was important to show how the King and his adviser, Hugh Despenser, were ruling the nation. Despenser was, in effect, running th......more

Goodreads review by Gerry

Another Knights Templar mystery by Michael Jecks. Sir Baldwin and his sidekick Bailiff Simon are at the royal court when the Queen’s attendant is murdered. Immediately thereafter a known assassin is found dead and mutilated in theGreat Hall Sir Baldwin is tasked by the King himself to unravel the my......more

Goodreads review by Karla

The slightly lower than usual rating had nothing to do with the story or the writing. It's just that I hated Sir Hugh SO MUCH and knew that he wasn't going to get what was coming to him at the end of the book. It was so frustrating, it kept me awake at night, fuming, which is actually a testament to......more

Goodreads review by Puzzle

Full review at classicmystery.wordpress.com......more

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