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From Across "The Pond" - Rated
I have to concur with J. Chippinadale regarding the quality of Bernard Knight's writing. As far as the Crowner John Mystery Series, I believe that I have all of the series at present as well as a few others. While I enjoy my academic readings, one must have their murder mystery to enjoy too and these are so well written and historically detailed you just can't wait until the next in the series is released. As a matter of fact, I have gone to purchasing from amazon.uk because publishers for Knight and others such as Michael Jecks seem to enjoy not releasing titles in the U.S. until months after releas in the U.K. It is quite unfair to have to wait so long for something so good.
By the way, service to the U.S. by amazon.uk is excellent! I must thank them for their customer service.
Crowner John Mystery - Rated
Crowner John or to give him his correct title, Sir John de Wolfe, is one of my all time favourite characters in medieval mysteries and if you read or are going to read this or any other of Bernard Knight's Crowner John Mysteries, you will probably understand why.. Dour and more than a little fierce looking but totally honest and incorruptible and a staunch follower of King Richard the Lionheart. He is the total opposite of his brother-in-law the Sheriff of Exeter, apart from the fact that the both have an eye for the ladies.
Prince John is continuing to plot the seize the throne of England away from his brother Richard and he has a staunch and influential ally in Philip the King of France. Philip offers to help solve Prince john's financial problems by sending him an alchemist who claims to be able to transform base metals into gold. But both the ship the alchemist was on and all of the crew are found ship wrecked and murdered off the Devon coast.
Later a knight living close to Exeter is found murdered under mysterious circumstances. It's up to the Crowner to piece the puzzle together are two deeds connected and what is his brother the Sheriff and a staunch supporter of Prince John attempting to hide?
I don't think that Bernard Knight has written a bad book, certainly not in the Crowner John series and this one certainly lives up to expectations. I loved reading it.
