The Templar, The Queen and Her Lover

Fabulous historical fiction, Michael Jecks knows his stuff. I love the adventures Sir Baldwin and Simon the bailiff and it was good to catch up with them again.......more

This is a story based on the tragic tale of the "Tour de Nesle". In the early 1300s, the French were rocked by the scandal of the behaviour of three princesses. They were discovered (largely because Queen Isabella of England reported them) to be having adulterous affairs in the tower. The two men in......more

This was probably not a good choice for reading late at night. Jecks jumps between 4 or 5 locations & sets of characters for much of the book. It's hard to figure out who's on whose side, or even how many sides there are. I felt like I ought to have one of those big cork boards like they have on cop......more

I usually enjoy the books in this series of Knights Templar but, for the first time ever, I got two thirds of the way through and decided to jump to the end just to get the gist of what -finally- happened. Didn’t mind the short chapters at the beginning (works for James Patterson) but towards the mi......more

I don't usually read a series back-to-back. I like to read a fiction book, followed by a nonfiction book. While the series have their stock characters, the stories are largely independent of the others. However, this book, #24 in the series, is closely linked to both the previous and the following o......more