cover image The Templar's Penance

The Templar's Penance

Michael Jecks. Headline Book Publishing, $27.5 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-7553-0170-6

In Michael Jecks's 15th intricate historical, The Templar's Penance: A Medieval West Country Mystery, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock travel on pilgrimage to Santiago de Campostela, where they find themselves looking into the brutal rape and murder of a young girl.