I started to read
King Arthur's Bones
just before New Year's Eve.
It's a book from the "Medieval Murderers" series, where each instalment follows a specific item (a relic, a sword, etc.) on its journey through time, from the Middle Ages to the present day, and tells how the item in question impacts the lives of various people over the course of time. Most of the time the books are named for the items they follow, so this particular book tells the story of a wooden casket containing human bones believed to be those of King Arthur.
The series is a collaborative effort of several writers of historical mysteries; the core group of writers consists of Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Michael Jecks, Ian Morson and Philip Gooden, with others (including C.J. Sansom and Karen Maitland) joining in later in the series. Frequently, but not always, the stories involve the main characters from the respective authors' individual series -- in
King Arthur's Bones, however, the only series characters featured are Michael Jecks's Knights Templar and Philip Gooden's Nick Revill.
I'm greatly enjoying this series, and three episodes in -- discovery of the bones in Glastonbury and secret removal to Wales, loss of the casket and various sinister doings during a Welsh-Norman skirmish, and attempt to take the bones to Snowdonia in support of Prince Dafydd's final stance against King Edward I ("Longshanks") of England a century later -- this book promises to be one of the stronger instalments!
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