The Tainted Relic by The Medieval Murderers

The story made me laugh and care about the characters.Īll that said, I will be getting more of this series of books, especially KING ARTHUR'S BONES, the reason I started looking for this team of authors. The only time I could truly understand the story was when it moved up to William Shakespeare's time. They died before I had a chance to know them or the people solving the crimes or the people doing the killing or even why the killing was occurring, except part of it was to get the relic back from whoever had it.

My issue was not following who was dying and it seemed like there were a lot of victims with each story. I got that the relic was supposedly cursed and death followed in its wake. It took me a little while to get into the story and then to understand everything that was going on. I listened to this at work and that might have been part of my not digging it as much as I could have. I liked the epilogue in our time, to pull the story out of the middle ages/Elizabethan times and show that it still has power, even though we don’t know it. The stories all flowed together really well, and all stayed true to the main story line. The other three appeal a bit less to me because of that, because I don’t know more about the characters and they don’t have room to give more of a back story. The only two writers I have read outside of The Medieval Murderers’ books are Susanna Gregory and Michael Jecks. The same goes for the time period, locale, and people in the story. The writing styles of all writers can be pretty different (changing point of view, third person or first person, main investigator or friend), and I liked some more than others. This leads to interesting cases for all investigators through the ages. It is a cursed relic, meaning that anyone who touches the piece and lets it out of his possession dies. In the 12th century a knight is handed the relic in Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The relic in this story is a piece of the true cross, in a glass vial in a wooden box. The stories of all these writers are tied together by one common theme, the tainted relic. This book is written by Bernard Knight (with his character of Crowner John in the 12th century), Ian Morson (with his character of William Falconer in 13th century Oxford), Michael Jecks (with his character of Sir Baldwin Furnshill in 14th century Exeter), Susanna Gregory (with her characters of Michael and Bartholomew in 14th century Cambridge) and Philip Gooden (with his character of Nick Revell in 16th century London). The Medieval Murderers are a group of historical fiction crime writers who have banded together to talk about their work, and later write books.

The Tainted Relic by The Medieval Murderers