The Abbot's Gibbet [Import] [Hardcover]

Michael Jecks (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 347 pages
• Publisher: Headline; First Edition edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074721882X
• ISBN-13: 978-0747218821
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Jecks gave up a career in the computer industry when he began writing the internationally successful Templar series. There are now twenty books starring Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock, with more to follow. The series has been translated into all the major European languages and sells worldwide. The Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association for the year 2004-2005, Michael is a keen supporter of new writing and has helped many new authors through the Debut Dagger Award. He is a founding member of Medieval Murderers, and regularly talks on medieval matters as well as writing.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Fifth in The Series, August 21, 2006

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J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Abbot's Gibbet: A Knights Templar Mystery (Knights Templar Mysteries (Avon)) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the fifth book in Michael Jeck's entertaining Knights Templar Mysteries. The main characters Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace and his friend the Bailiff Simon Puttock are now old friends to the reader. Combine the inter action between the main characters with the beautiful background of west country Devon and it is obvious that Michael Jecks is on to a winner with his increasingly popular books.

Medieval novels are becoming increasingly popular with the reading public and there are a number of well written books by authors such as Paul Doherty, Bernard Knight, Susanna Gregory, to name but a few. Michael Jecks is steadily getting himself on a par with these fine novelists.

Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his close friend the Bailiff Simon Puttock are visiting Tavistock, as guests of the Abbot, intending to enjoy the fair and all the town has to offer. Responsible for justice in the area, the Abbot enlists the help of his friends when a headless body is found. But there is one big problem. How can they identify the victim without first finding the head?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable book in a delightful series, October 8, 2007

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L. J. Roberts (Oakland, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Abbot's Gibbet: A Knights Templar Mystery (Knights Templar Mysteries (Avon)) (Mass Market Paperback)

First Sentence: The sun was almost unbearably hot, the journey distinctly uncomfortable.

It is 1319 and people have come from all over to attend the Tavistock fair. Sir Baldwin Fernshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, and Simon Puttock, bailiff of Lydford have come as guests of Abbot Robert Champeaux. When a headless body is found, the Abbott asks Baldwin and Simon to investigate.

Jecks has become a favorite author of mine and I really liked this book. The sense of time and place is wonderful. The plot is interesting and kept me guessing. There's good suspense, a hint of romance and even a good chase scene, albeit on horseback. There are great characters that are fully developed to the point where I feel involved in the lives of the main characters and want to keep following their lives. This was another very enjoyable book in a delightful series.

5.0 out of 5 stars Love Jenks, September 14, 2009

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This review is from: The Abbot's Gibbet: A Knights Templar Mystery (Knights Templar Mysteries (Avon)) (Mass Market Paperback)

Jenks knows how to write and tell a good story that is historically accurate. A really good "whodunit."