Sword of Shame

‘THE MEDIEVAL MURDERERS’

A small group of historical mystery writers, all members of the Crime Writers’ Association, who promote their work by giving informal talks and discussions at libraries, bookshops and literary festivals.

Michael Jecks was a computer salesman before turning to writing. His immensely popular Templar series, set during the confusion and terror of the reign of Edward II, is translated into most continental languages, and is published in America. The most recent novels in the series are The Death Ship of Dartmouth and The Malice of Unnatural Death. Michael was chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association in 2004-5.

Bernard Knight is a former Home Office pathologist and professor of forensic medicine who has been publishing novels, non-fiction, radio and television drama and documentaries for more than forty years. He currently writes the highly-regarded Crowner John series of historical mysteries, based on the first coroner for Devon in the twelfth century; the eleventh of which, The Noble Outlaw, has recently been published by Simon & Schuster.

Ian Morson is the author of an acclaimed series of historical mysteries featuring the thirteenth-century Oxford-based detective, William Falconer.

Susanna Gregory is the author of the Matthew Bartholomew series of mystery novels, set in fourteenth-century Cambridge, and a brand-new series featuring Thomas Chaloner, a reluctant spy in Restoration London, the second of which, Blood on the Strand, has recently been published. She also writes historical mysteries under the name of ‘Simon Beaufort’.

Philip Gooden is the author of the Nick Revil series, a sequence of historical mysteries set in Elizabethan and Jacobean London, during the time of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. The latest titles in the series are Mask of the Night and An Honourable Murder. He also produces reference books on language, most recently Faux Pas and Name Dropping.