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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  DavidBale | Sep 14, 2009 |  Read for book club. Not my kind of book at all. (  ) brsquilt | Aug 31, 2008 | a bailiff and a knight sort out the truth behind murders in 14th century Britain--OK xestobium25 | May 20, 2008 | Excellent medieval mysteries series; this first book isn't the best--they get better, which is very common in a series; Jecks is a former lawyer and loves history, so you learn a lot about medieval laws and customs, which I enjoy very much. Sir Baldwin is a bit stiff as a main character, but Bailiff Puttock is much more interesting. I get a big kick out of him! (  ) lanegs1 | May 12, 2008 | I was unable to make it all the way through this one. The writing is repetitive and unoriginal. The characters might have become interesting at some point, but they weren't, particularly, up to the point I read. The description of the death of Jacques De Molay was fairly good though. ( ) benfulton | Jul 15, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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The Knights Templar
They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience…for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to theprotection of pilgrims in the Holy Land -- until stories spread by anavaricious king who wanted their wealth for his own destroyed the order.
There was one knight, however, who escaped the stake, vowing justiceas he watched his innocent brothers die.
In the Service of the Lord
Simon Puttock has not been bailiff of Lydford Castle long in this year of 1316, when he is called to a nearby village to examine a burned-out cottage and the dead body within. But it is the newly arrived knight, Sir Baldwin Furnshill, who discerns the deceased was no victim of a tragic mishap; he was, in fact, murdered prior to the blaze. Simon would be well-served by accepting further assistance from this astute, though haunted and secretive stranger. For a second fatal burning indicates that some harsh evil has invaded this once-peaceful place, and its hunger has yet to be sated.
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Finally, the main character gets back to investigating the original murder, which wraps up very quickly with an unsatisfying solution, and then discovers an extremely predictable dark secret about another character, which I didn't care about anyway because the other character hadn't done much of anything for most of the book.
Overall, while this book had an interesting idea for the setting, the writing was dull and the plot was boring, so this wasn't a very worthwhile read. (