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My first Michael Jenks book---I loved the character of Simon, the bailiff. A bit slow but good-hearted and honest. His goal is to bring a criminal to justice but without being cold-blooded about it. The character of Sir Baldwin Furnshill is great and in the beginning enigmatic. Jenkins develops their characters slowly as we read the book and see them as if one was there. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and always liked reading about this history of that era. I've already ordered the next Jecks book, "The Merchant's Partner." Just reading the synopsis has caught my attention. I've a new author and a new series to enjoy.


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The Last Templar Knights Templar series Michael Jecks 9780060763442 Books Reviews

I already had a copy. This was for a friend who was unable to get out and around and needed something to read. I had about half of the series. Great historical fiction.
Enoyed it very much. This was my first time reading a Michael Jecks book and I will definitely read others. It held my interest-overall a good read without any deeply offensive or explicit passages. Good recreational read.
I have always been a sucker for books with knights and castles and monks and maidens fair and this one is particularly well written. If you like Cadfael, I'm pretty sure you'll love this author. I have already bought the second book in the series,
A fair story for a first book but I was able to figure out who did it well before the end. I am hoping that the other books in the series will be more intriguing and suspenseful.
I was really looking forward to this book and reading the entire series but after this first one I will have to hold off on the rest.

The mystery itself was OK at best but what really bothered me was the supposed historical setting. The characters are far to progress and "PC" for the 14th century. There is a whole section where the villagers are being questioned about what they were doing one evening and over and over again they refer to time like "seven o'clock", "a little past eleven" and "couldn't have been later than eleven thirty"....sorry but villagers in 1316 didn't think in terms like that. They knew sunrise, sunset, moon rise and moon set they would be lucky to have ever seen a clock or time candle. BTW this isn't London this is a village of 7 homes in the middle of nowhere. That really bugged me and showed no research was done on this.

I agree on the typos comments and the phrasings used again and again.

Finally what I really didn't understand was when the author used terms from that time period but then dropped it without explanation. An example was when he talked about a character's daughter's favorite game; he named the game and then moved on. I would have loved to have heard a little about the game. He could have easily slipped in a brief description of the game. "The pegs tumbled as my horse piece moved over the wooden tray." Instead we're left wondering what the heck this is. It would have added a lot to the book.

I will probably read the second in the series but I'm in not rush. (I didn't like O'Brian's first book but ended up loving the series)
Somehow I ended up with the eighth book in this series and never liking to start any series in the middle, I ordered the first few books. Having now read the first, I wish I had not.

"The Last Templar" is categorized as a mystery but in actuality it doesn't read like one at all. 1316 in Devon County England this seems to be a nice setting for a historical mystery- a quiet county where there isn't much crime but a lot of poverty. However there are so many problems with the plot, the premis and the characters that not only is there no mystery in the book but the other elements fall flat making reading this a bit like falling into a void.

Problem #1 the sleuth. Simon Puttock has just become bailiff of a castle. Apparently bailiff's function somewhat like sheriffs-which I didn't realize. So he is called upon to solve crimes and basically he asks bad questions and then decides that people sound like they're telling the truth and believes them. No evidence, no real sleuthing. This guy could confront a murderer- bloody knife in hand, standing over the body, and decide, based on a statement, that he "sounded like he believed what he saying was true" so he must be innocent (actually, at one point he basically does just that.) Ugh! The man would be everyone's favorite judge! Also, when the times come to solve the mystery he basically says "Here's what happened!" and then explains the whole thing. Like a bad TV crime show. And then the villain confesses when they could have gotten off Scot free!

Problem #2 the mystery. This book has three different crimes, tied together by the use of fire in all three. A dead man in his house, who a local knight is convinced didn't die in the fire, an Abbott roasted on a stake in the woods after being captured on the road and a gang of bandits robbing and burning people on the road. To the first two crimes-there is a sight mystery but almost no evidence is gathered, nothing done to figure out. Basically he decides on the perp and they magically confess. The third crime is more of a chase to find said bandits with no clues beforehand to identity or anything because they're not from the district.

Problem #3 the setting. At the beginning of the book the magical bailiff Simon informs us there is practically no crime in the county. Yet this series goes on and on and on-so clearly there's like a massive crime boom at some point. Like all the serial killers and rapists and child molesters and burglars in England have a convention and say "Hey! Let's move to Devon where the magical bailiff Simon Puttock will get us all to confess when he has no evidence!"

Problem #4 the whole Templar thing. It just doesn't play. So the new knight to the area was a Templar-so what? Why should I care? And I really don't think it justifies what happens with him in the book.

To sum up-not a good mystery, not good writing, the characters make me want to kick them. Unfortunately I own the next five books in the series. Maybe I'll read them, maybe not. First novels can be extraordinarily bad and subsequent ones can be ok. We'll see.

For now, two disappointed stars.
I am fascinated by the Knights Templar. I bought this on a whim. I was very pleasantly surprised by the mix of the history of the Templars with the murders in the shire. Simon Puttock, the newly appointed bailiff of Lydford Castle gets "a baptism under fire" with hits new job. Brewer the villager murdered in his home. A group of merchants are murdered by a group of highway men. An abott is burned as if a heretic. He befriends Sir Baldwin Furnshill , the new lord of the manor. With Hugh, his failthul servant, Simon sets out to find the killers.
It is a riveting tale. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My first Michael Jenks book---I loved the character of Simon, the bailiff. A bit slow but good-hearted and honest. His goal is to bring a criminal to justice but without being cold-blooded about it. The character of Sir Baldwin Furnshill is great and in the beginning enigmatic. Jenkins develops their characters slowly as we read the book and see them as if one was there. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and always liked reading about this history of that era. I've already ordered the next Jecks book, "The Merchant's Partner." Just reading the synopsis has caught my attention. I've a new author and a new series to enjoy.