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Fourth Book in an Excellent Series Bernard Knight, or to give him his correct title, Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, was a pathologist to the Home office until 1980 when he was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology at the University of Wales College of medicine, 1980. He has written the extremely successful Crowner John series of medieval mysteries, of which there are now ten or eleven books, His character Crowner John is certainly among my favourite characters in medieval mysteries. A Knight of the Temple of Solomon claims to have... more info
Crowner Treading Water The plot summary for this fourth episode in the Crowner John series was quite intriguing...piracy, Templars and a secret awful enough to rock the whole Catholic church to its foundations. Unfortunately the book failed to live up to its promise and turned out to be a pretty mundane adventure for the Coroner of Devon. The "Awful Secret" is only introduced late in the story, almost as an afterthought whilst a particularly promising plot thread involving a suspected pirates nest on the Island of Lundy turned... more info
disappointing Having just read all four Crowner John novels back to back, I must say I am disappointed by the lack of development in the characters and the stories. I really want to like Crowner John and his adventures, but I get annoyed by endless repeats of the same information in every book (how he came to be crowner,where his house is, how often he shaves etc.), while other things I desperately want to know about are never explained (Why his mother didn't come to visit when he broke his leg, why his brother is... more info
will not have universal appeal This is the fourth outing for coroner John de Wolfe - although it's the first time I've come across this series. The period flavour is excellently done and there's a map of medieval Exeter at the beginning of the book and a really useful glossary -even if the author didn't describe an aventail correctly (it's attached to the hauberk, not the helm) and seemed to have obtained his costume descriptions from some sadly out of date reference works. The writer's voice comes over as slightly patronising in places... more info
