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Death Ship of Dartmouth - A Medieval West Country Mystery Author: 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 Dartmouth, a man is found lying dead in the road. But the inhabitants of this little haven dismiss his death as a drunken accident, their attentions turned to more worrying matters—piracy. A ship, the St.... more » has been discovered, half-ravaged and the crew missing, in an attack that bears all the hallmarks of the supposedly disbanded Lyme Pirates. Could this be the beginning of a vicious onslaught, or is something even more sinister happening? Sir Baldwin Furnshill has been told by Bishop Stapledon of spies being sent to the great traitor Roger Mortimer. If this is true and messages are reaching Mortimer, civil war in England is inevitable. And so the Kingdom’s most powerful and ruthless men demand that Baldwin and Bailiff Simon Puttock uncover the truth, and quickly. This is to be the most important investigation of their lives: fail and they will be executed. Succeed and there will be others ready to silence them forever…
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Sharon R. (hazeleyes) reviewed Death Ship of Dartmouth (A Medieval West Country Mystery) on + 332 more book reviews
The author Michael Jecks is a historian of Middle Age life in the Dartmoor area of England where Jecks lives with his family.
His wonderful books (numbering around 27 or 28) are set in a location he knows intimately and devolve from his scouring of the crime records of the time - a very interesting way to proceed, I found.
Many characters critical to the advancement of the story were invented by Jecks but others actually lived in the time of the novels. Both types are skillfully brought to life by Jecks.
I've read most of the books and found them interesting, absorbing, illuminating, and as a result of reading them I know more about the lives Middle Age 'just plain folks'. Perhaps not charming and sweet, but gritty and 'real'.
"Jecks succeeds in writing both a book which smells of the Middle Ages and yet is a detective story. No mean feat!" Crime Time
For more, visit: http://www.michaeljecks.co.uk/
His wonderful books (numbering around 27 or 28) are set in a location he knows intimately and devolve from his scouring of the crime records of the time - a very interesting way to proceed, I found.
Many characters critical to the advancement of the story were invented by Jecks but others actually lived in the time of the novels. Both types are skillfully brought to life by Jecks.
I've read most of the books and found them interesting, absorbing, illuminating, and as a result of reading them I know more about the lives Middle Age 'just plain folks'. Perhaps not charming and sweet, but gritty and 'real'.
"Jecks succeeds in writing both a book which smells of the Middle Ages and yet is a detective story. No mean feat!" Crime Time
For more, visit: http://www.michaeljecks.co.uk/
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Mystery >> General
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> General