Sir Baldwin Furnshill, once a Knight Templar, however, has doubts about the boy’s guilt, and enlists friend and bailiff of Lydford Castle, Simon Puttock, in the hunt for a murderer. When the mutilated body of midwife and healer Agatha Kyteler is discovered in a hedge one frozen wintry morning, it at first appears the lack of clues will render the crime unsolvable until a frightened local youth inexplicably flees his village and a hue and cry is raised. For a second fatal burning indicates that some harsh evil has invaded this once peaceful place, and its hunger has yet to be sated. Simon would be well served by accepting further assistance from this astute, though haunted and secretive stranger. 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 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. There was one knight, however, who escaped the stake, vowing justiceas he watched his innocent brothers die. 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.

Medieval Murderers Books In Publication Order

The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover (2008).

The Last Templar by Michael Jecks