Michael Jecks

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1995
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Art of Murder Book

1 - Portrait of a Murder (Apr-2023)
2 - Landscape of Murder (Apr-2024)

A Jack Blackjack Mystery

1 - Rebellion's Message (Aug-2016)
2 - A Murder Too Soon (Sep-2017)
3 - A Missed Murder (Dec-2018)
4 - The Dead Don't Wait (Nov-2019)
5 - Death Comes Hot (Dec-2020)
6 - The Moorland Murderers (Nov-2021)
7 - The Merchant Murderers (Oct-2022)
8 - Murdering The Messenger (Oct-2023)

A Knights Templar Mystery

1 - A Friar's Bloodfeud (Dec-2005)
2 - The Death Ship of Dartmouth (Nov-2006)
3 - The Malice of Unnatural Death (Dec-2006)
4 - Dispensation of Death (Jun-2007)
5 - The Templar, The Queen And Her Lover (May-2008)
6 - The Prophecy of Death (Oct-2008)
7 - King of Thieves (May-2009)
8 - No Law in the Land (Jun-2009)
8 - The Bishop Must Die (Nov-2009)
9 - The Oath (Oct-2010)
10 - King's Gold (Aug-2011)
11 - City of Fiends (Sep-2012)
12 - Templar's Acre (Jun-2013)

A Medieval West Country Mystery

1 - The Last Templar (1995)
2 - The Merchant's Partner (1995)
3 - A Moorland Hanging (1996)
4 - The Crediton Killings (1997)
5 - The Abbot's Gibbet (Nov-1998)
6 - The Leper's Return (1998)
7 - Squire Throwleigh's Heir (Dec-1999)
8 - Belladonna at Belstone (Dec-1999)
9 - The Traitor of St. Giles (Sep-2000)
10 - The Boy-Bishop's Glovemaker (Dec-2000)
11 - The Tournament of Blood (Aug-2001)
12 - The Sticklepath Strangler (May-2002)
13 - The Devil's Acolyte (Jun-2002)
14 - The Mad Monk of Gidliegh (Dec-2002)
15 - The Templar's Penance (Jul-2003)
16 - The Outlaws of Ennor (Nov-2003)
17 - The Tolls of Death (May-2004)
18 - The Chapel of Bones (Dec-2004)
19 - The Butcher of St. Peter's (May-2005)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • The Last Templar

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    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 1

    1314 Paris. Pope Clement has destroyed the Order of Knights Templar, wrongly persuaded of their corruption. Watching through a veil of tears as his friends die at the stake, a surviving knight swears vengeance on their accusers. 1316 Devon. ...

  • The Merchant's Partner

    • / Historical Mystery
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    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 2

    THE.KNIGHTS TEMPLAR They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience... for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated, to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land--until stories spread bean avaricious king who wanted their ...

  • A Moorland Hanging

    • / Historical Mystery
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    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 3

    THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience... for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land--until stories spread by an avaricious king who wanted their ...

  • The Crediton Killings

    • / Historical Mystery
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    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 4

    THE DEVONSHIRE TOWN of Crediton is awaiting an important guest, the Bishop of Exeter. But a band of mercenary soldiers is already in residence, and though mercenaries are a common sight in the fourteenth century, these men are bent on havoc. They ter...

  • The Leper's Return

    • / Historical Mystery
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    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 6

    It is 1320 and civil war is looming as Ralph of Houndeslow rides into Crediton. Ralph faces a daunting task as Master of St. Lawrence's, the leper hospital. Not only are his. charges grievously ill, they are also outcasts of society, shunned by all h...

  • The Abbot's Gibbet

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 5

    It is 1319. Tavistock's fair has drawn merchants to Devon from all over England and beyond. Keeping the streets clean and the locals in order is no easy task, for the influx of visitors and their money puts temptation in the way of cut-purses and oth...

  • Belladonna at Belstone

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 8

    MOLL, A YOUNG NUN, lies recovering from a migraine in the infirmary of St Mary's Priory, Belstone. Left to rest, she is just falling into a doze when she suddenly awakes, realising in terror that she can't breathe... IT'S 1321 and Lady Elizabeth ...

  • Squire Throwleigh's Heir

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 7

    IT'S LATE SPRING in 1321 and as Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, prepares for his wedding, he receives the news that one of his guests, Roger, Squire of Throwleigh has just died. The new master of Throwleigh is little Herbert, five ...

  • The Traitor of St. Giles

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 9

    IT IS 1321 and the folk of Tiverton are preparing for St Giles' feast under the shadow of murder. Philip Dyne has confessed and claimed sanctuary in St Peter's church but danger still lives within the community. AS SIR BALDWIN FURNSHILL, Keeper of...



  • The Boy-Bishop's Glovemaker

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 10

    No rest for the wicked, not even at Christmas...For Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace, and Bailiff Simon Puttock, Christmas 1321 is set to be marvellous. They are to receive the prestigious gloves of honour in a ceremony led by the ...

  • The Tournament of Blood

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 11

    LORD HUGH DE COURTENAY'S plan to host a tournament in the spring of 1322 is a golden opportunity for the money-lenders of Oakhampton. When the defeated knights find themselves unable to pay the traditional ransoms to their captors, they will have o...

  • The Sticklepath Strangler

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 12

    AS THE SUMMER OF 1322 at last brings the sun to Devonshire, it seems that Sticklepath remains cloaked in a grim, evil darkness. An afternoon of innocent adventure leads to gruesome terror when two playmates uncover the skeleton of a girl. The body is...

  • The Devil's Acolyte

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 13

    AMIDST THE MYTH and folklore of Tavistock, one tale above all others strikes fear into the hearts of the town's inhabitants -- that of the murders on the Abbot's Way -- whereby a young acolyte paid the price for stealing his abbot's wine when the de...

  • The Mad Monk of Gidliegh

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 14

    AS THE WINTER OF 1323 descends on Dartmoor, life has never seemed so bleak to the young priest, Mark, in his isolated, windswept chapel. So who could blame him for accepting some longed-for companionship when it is offered by the local miller's daugh...

  • The Templar's Penance

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 15

    IT IS THE SUMMER OF 1323, and Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock have been granted leave to go on pilgrimage. Together they travel across Europe to Spain, but danger seems to follow them even this far afield, as they are among the first on t...

  • The Outlaws of Ennor

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 16

    Separated, but working on the same mystery, what will befall Sir Baldwin and Simon Puttock after a devastating shipwreck? The brooding Scilly Isles provide the backdrop to Michael Jecks' absorbing sixteenth mystery, The Outlaws of Ennor, featuring t...

  • The Tolls of Death

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 17

    Detained in a Cornish village, can Sir Baldwin and Simon discover who is behind a series of devastating attacks? Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock's seventeenth mystery, The Toll of Death, is a compelling tale of evil and darkness, ...

  • The Chapel of Bones

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 18

    As Sir Baldwin and Simon Puttock uncover the mysteries surrounding the church, they risk making more enemies than friends... The Chapel of Bones is the eighteenth mystery in Michael Jecks' riveting Knights Templar medieval series, featuring Sir Bald...

  • The Butcher of St. Peter's

    A Medieval West Country Mystery - 19

    A dangerous killer stalks the streets of Exeter... can Sir Baldwin and Simon Puttock hope to catch him? The Butcher of St Peter's is the gripping nineteenth novel in Michael Jecks' popular medieval series, the Knights Templar mysteries, featuring Si...



  • A Friar's Bloodfeud

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 1

    Can the evil at work ever be stopped? The compulsive and evocative twentieth novel in the Knights Templar series from Michael Jecks, featuring much-loved characters Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Simon Puttock. Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and Geor...

  • Sword of Shame

    in Sword of Shame

    The Latin inscription carved on the gleaming blade read "He who lives in falsehood slays his soul; he who lies, his honor.” If only they had known how true those words would prove to be. The Sword of Shame was lovingly crafted by a Saxon swordsmi...

  • The Death Ship of Dartmouth

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 2

    1324 -- A DISASTROUS AUTUMN LOOMS LARGE, for as the leaves begin to fall there are those who wish to bring the Kingdom down as well. IN THE HAVEN OF DARTMOUTH, a man is found lying dead in the road. At sea a ship is discovered, half ravaged, in an...

  • The Malice of Unnatural Death

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 3

    1324: THE ENGLISH KINGDOM IS IN UPROAR. Roger Mortimer, once the King's most able commander, but now his most hated enemy, is plotting to assassinate the King. But he's not the only one with murder on his mind. . . WHEN THE BODIES of a local craf...

  • The Tainted Relic

    July, 1100. Jerusalem lies ransacked. Amidst the chaos, an English knight is entrusted with a valuable religious relic: a fragment of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ. The relic is said to be cursed: anyone who touches it wi...

  • Dispensation of Death

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 4

    1325: ENGLAND IS A HOTBED OF PARANOIA under the reign of the increasingly deranged and unpredictable Edward II and his lover, Sir Hugh le Despenser. WHEN THE QUEEN'S LADY-IN-WAITING is slaughtered and a man murdered in the Great Hall at Thorney Isla...

  • The Templar, The Queen And Her Lover

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 5

    1325: AN ATMOSPHERE OF DREAD AND SUSPICION HANGS OVER ENGLAND. The last years have been god-awful. A man was hard pushed just to survive with the realm stretched so taut with treachery and mistrust and the war with France. When Isabella, Queen of E...

  • The Prophecy of Death

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 6

    1325: England is in turmoil. King Edward ll is weak, his bloody reign staggering towards disaster. He has rejected his wife, Queen Isabella, and yet he still relies on her; she has been sent to France to negotiate peace with her brother, the French ...

  • King of Thieves

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 7

    On a diplomatic mission in France, Sir Baldwin and Simon encounter more than they bargained for... Baldwin and Simon uncover a deadly assassination plot in The King of Thieves, a gripping mystery in Michael Jecks' hugely popular medieval crime serie...

  • No Law in the Land

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 8

    King Edward II is furious when he learns that his wife Queen Isabella has defied him by remaining in France with their son. As the unfortunate messengers of this unhappy news, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, and his friend, bail...



  • The Bishop Must Die

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 8

    Working against the clock, can Sir Baldwin and Simon hope to prevent a murder? As the threat of war hangs over England, Sir Baldwin and Bailiff Puttock must work desperately to prevent murder, in Michael Jecks' latest thrilling mystery in his hugely...

  • The Oath

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 9

    Now in paperback, a gripping mystery from the master of medieval crime set amid the turmoil of war, where nobody's life is safe. 1326. In an England riven with conflict, knight and peasant alike find their lives turned upside down by the warring f...

  • King's Gold

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 10

    As the year 1326 draws to a close, London is in flames. King Edward II is a prisoner, and the forces of his vengeful queen, Isabella, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, are in the ascendant. The Bardi family, bankers who have funded the King, must loo...

  • City of Fiends

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 11

    The city gates are closed; the killer is within the walls…England, 1327. Sir Baldwin and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock have a major problem. The deposed King Edward II, imprisoned under their guard, has escaped. They must ride hard to Exeter to ...

  • Templar's Acre

    A Knights Templar Mystery - 12

    A legend is born.The epic prequel to the Last Templar Mysteries series.The Holy Land, 1291. War has raged here for decades. The Crusader forces have been pushed back again and again until just one city remains in their control. One city that stands b...

  • Fields of Glory

    A stunning new series from Michael Jecks, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. The year is 1346 and King Edward III is restless. Despite earlier victories his army has still not achieved a major breakthrough and the French crown ...

  • Blood on the Sand

    The Siege of Calais, during the Hundred Years' Wars. The thrilling second novel in a new series for master of the historical adventure, Michael Jecks, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Calais, 1346. Berenger Fripper and his me...

  • Blood of the Innocents

    The thrilling finale to the Vintener trilogy from the master of historical adventure. France, 1356: Ten years have passed since the battle of Crecy, and the English fighters are still abroad, laying siege to cities, towns and even small villages. ...

  • Rebellion's Message

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 1

    Introducing Elizabethan cutpurse and adventurer Jack Blackjack in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series January, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack knows he’s not going to have a good day when he wakes with a sore head next to a d...

  • A Murder Too Soon

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 2

    Jack Blackjack is ordered to eliminate a spy in Princess Elizabeth’s household in this engaging Tudor mystery. June, 1554. Former cutpurse and now professional assassin Jack Blackjack has deep misgivings about his latest assignment. He has been...



  • Pilgrim's War

    The first installment of a thrilling new crusader series in the style of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. France, 1096 . Crowds gather in Sens to hear the man known as the Hermit speak. He talks of a pilgrimage to the city of Jerusalem, one fi...

  • A Missed Murder

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 3

    When Jack Blackjack disobeys the orders of his spymaster, he enters dangerous waters in this lively Tudor mystery. London, 1555. Queen Mary is newly married to Philip II of Spain -- and not everyone is happy about the alliance. The kingdom is div...

  • The Dead Don't Wait

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 4

    Jack Blackjack stands accused of killing a priest in the wickedly entertaining new Bloody Mary Tudor mystery. April, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by ...

  • Death Comes Hot

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 5

    Jack Blackjack's search for an executioner's son ensnares him in a fiendish mesh of schemes in this lively Tudor mystery. London. May, 1556. Hal Westmecott, one of the city's most feared executioners, reckons Jack Blackjack owes him a favour - and no...

  • The Moorland Murderers

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 6

    Londoner Jack Blackjack finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he’s accused of murder in rural Devon in this eventful Tudor mystery. July, 1556. En route to France and escape from Queen Mary’s men, Jack Blackjack decides to spend the ni...

  • The Merchant Murderers

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 7

    "Superb . . . a fast-moving and gripping plot"- Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewAugust, 1556. Jack Blackjack is on a simple mission: make it back home to his beloved London. It should be simple, right? Wrong. He's made it as far as Exeter, ...

  • Portrait of a Murder

    The Art of Murder Book - 1

    Join this accidental sleuth, Nick Morris, in his first mystery in The Art of Murder series...Nick Morris is your classic struggling artist. He paints pet portraits to pay the bills but is always just one big commission away from a more comfortable li...

  • Murdering The Messenger

    A Jack Blackjack Mystery - 8

    "Superb . . . a fast-moving and gripping plot" Publishers Weekly Starred Review of The Merchant MurderersMarch 1557. Jack Blackjack is back in London and enjoying a sedentary life " after his treacherous voyage back to his beloved city th...

  • One Last Dance Before I Die

    Shanghai 1922.It seems an oasis of calm, a western city in China, where the champagne flows and men make fortunes while enjoying themselves in cabarets and brothels; a cosmopolitan playground for the rich and famous. But below the surface, gangs cont...

  • Landscape of Murder

    The Art of Murder Book - 2

    Join accidental sleuth, Nick Morris, in his second mystery in The Art of Murder series.When an offer to paint a beautiful Georgian house in the Peak District falls into Nick Morris' lap he jumps at the commission. Businessman Derek Swann is selling u...



  • Death Comes in Threes

    Princess Elizabeth's unlikely assassin finds himself on the hook for two murders in this light-hearted Tudor mystery series!August, 1558. As London is bustling with growing trade from foreign lands, and Queen Mary's health is once again a hot topic, ...

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Michael Jecks has published 50 books.

The next book by Michael Jecks, Death Comes in Threes, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Michael Jecks, The Last Templar, was published in January 1995.

Yes. Michael Jecks has 4 series.
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