Knights Templar Mysteries Books in Order

In 1291, teenage Baldwin de Furnshill arrives in the last Crusader stronghold of Acre hoping to outrun a troubled past. As Muslim forces close in and the city braces for its final siege, he is thrown into brutal street fighting, betrayal and sacrifice in the battle that will shape the rest of his life.

When the imprisoned Edward II escapes from under their noses, Baldwin and Simon race to Exeter with the disastrous news. Inside the walled city a young woman is found murdered, and with the gates closed against outside unrest, Baldwin must find her killer in a place where every citizen hides a secret.

At the end of 1326 London burns, Edward II sits in captivity and Queen Isabella and Mortimer are triumphant. The powerful Bardi banking family, who funded the old king, scramble to survive, while Baldwin and Simon, guarding their deposed monarch, are drawn into lethal conspiracies over hidden treasure and shifting loyalties.

In an England split between Edward II and the rising power of Isabella and Mortimer, a Devon family is found butchered in their own home. Ordered by Mortimer to investigate, Simon is pulled into a web of local vengeance and national politics where every sworn oath can be twisted.

As Queen Isabella flaunts her alliance with Roger Mortimer in France and England fears invasion, Bishop Stapledon, the king’s treasurer, receives chilling death threats. Summoned to London, Baldwin and Simon must identify the would‑be assassin and protect a man with many enemies while the kingdom edges toward open conflict.

After carrying unwelcome news that Queen Isabella refuses to return from France, Baldwin and Simon are dismissed from court and ride home to Devon. There they find the countryside terrorised by organised outlaws, and when an entire party of travellers is massacred, they confront an enemy whose royal connections make justice perilous.

Stripped of influence at Westminster, Queen Isabella is sent to France to negotiate with her brother, and Baldwin and Simon must join her escort. When a French magnate is stabbed and Baldwin is framed, he must untangle espionage, blackmail and divided loyalties to save both himself and the English mission.

Baldwin and Simon return from France with an urgent message for Edward II, only to be drawn straight back into court intrigue. As prophecies about holy oil and a destined king swirl around Westminster, they must uncover a deadly plot aimed at reshaping the future of the crown.

In 1325 Paris, Baldwin and Simon accompany Prince Edward and Bishop Walter into a city thick with spies and professional criminals. A series of killings pulls them into the orbit of Paris’s feared king of thieves, where they must stop an assassination plot that could plunge England into chaos.

A royal messenger is slain carrying a dangerous secret, and rumours spread of a sorcerer hired to kill the king by magic. In crowded, suspicious Exeter, Baldwin, Simon and a hard-drinking coroner pick their way through assassins, fortune-tellers and political schemers to stop further deaths.

In 1325, under the unpredictable rule of Edward II and his favourite Hugh Despenser, the queen’s lady-in-waiting is murdered and a mutilated body is found behind the throne. Baldwin is summoned to investigate within a court where torture and blackmail are normal tools, and a wrong move could cost him his life.

Near Dartmouth, a corpse in the road is dismissed as the result of drunken misfortune just as a ship ravaged by pirates is found at sea. Baldwin and Simon must learn whether the two events are linked to spies carrying messages to the traitor Roger Mortimer and a looming civil war.

A strange figure obsessed with children prowls Exeter’s streets at night, slipping into houses and terrifying families. After a father is slaughtered defending his own, Baldwin suspects more than a lone madman, and his search through the city’s criminal underworld reveals a killer who is far from finished.

Simon’s servant Hugh is granted treasured leave to visit his wife and son, only for their cottage to be burned and the bodies hurriedly buried. The neat story of an accident does not convince Baldwin and Simon, whose investigation uncovers arson, revenge and a string of killings rooted in an old quarrel.

In the Cornish village of Cardinham, a destitute woman is found hanged beside the bodies of her children, and the tragedy is blamed on despair. Passing through on their journey home, Baldwin and Simon suspect murder and uncover land disputes, old betrayals and a killer hiding behind a tale of sorrow.

Exeter’s cathedral close still remembers an ambush and massacre that stained it with blood forty years earlier. When a hated merchant is killed and links emerge to that old crime, Baldwin and Simon must uncover how past guilt and a grim ossuary chapel have shaped fresh violence.

Granted leave to make pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Baldwin hopes for reflection rather than bloodshed. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on a Spanish hillside, he and Simon lend their skills to the inquiry and soon discover that old enemies and fresh dangers travel even on holy roads.

Shipwrecked after pirates attack their vessel off the Scilly Isles, Baldwin and Simon are separated and each believes the other dead. On different islands they investigate the same killing from opposite sides, revealing local feuds, smuggling and desperate outlaws who threaten to turn the tiny community into a battlefield.

At Gidleigh, a young priest sent to serve a small chapel falls in love with a miller’s daughter, who is later found brutally stabbed beside the road. Branded a killer and on the run, he forces Baldwin and Simon to unravel twisted family loyalties and simmering resentments inside the local lord’s hall.

A local legend tells of a young monk lured to his death on the Abbot’s Way after stealing his abbot’s wine. In 1322, an empty barrel and a fresh corpse on the moor suggest the tale is coming to life again, and Baldwin and Simon must separate folklore from a very real murderer.

As knights across Devon prepare for a grand tournament, moneylender Benjamin Dudenay is found beaten to death, followed quickly by a murdered carpenter hired to build the stands. Baldwin and Simon must work fast amid debts, pride and jousting rivalries to stop a killer using the festivities as cover.

Two children discover the bones of a girl who vanished six years earlier, and Baldwin and Simon soon learn she was not the only young victim. In the fearful village of Sticklepath, talk of cannibalism and vampires hides a much more human predator who has killed with impunity.

During the Feast of St Giles, a condemned killer claims sanctuary and is ordered to leave England, only to be found decapitated on the road. When a knight lies dead nearby, Baldwin and Simon suspect a link between the murders and a treacherous game being played among the gentry.

Christmas in Exeter should bring honour to Baldwin and Simon, who are to receive ceremonial gloves from the cathedral’s Boy-Bishop. Instead they find the glovemaker stabbed and a young cleric poisoned, drawing them into city rivalries where respectable citizens hide lethal secrets.

In 1320 Crediton, a goldsmith is murdered and his daughter attacked, shocking a town already on edge. As fear and loathing focus on the nearby leper hospital, Baldwin and Simon race to stop a wave of persecution while tracking the killer who is using hatred as cover.

When Squire Roger of Throwleigh dies, his five-year-old son Herbert inherits the estate and his mother’s bitter blame. Days later the boy is supposedly killed in a cart accident. Certain the child was targeted, Baldwin and Simon uncover dangerous ambitions circling the new heir’s wealth.

St Mary’s Priory on Dartmoor seethes with gossip and faction as its prioress is accused of misusing funds and breaking her vows. After nuns are found dead, Baldwin and Simon must navigate broken obedience, illicit affairs and church politics to reveal who is killing within the cloister.

As Crediton prepares for a prestigious visit from the Bishop of Exeter, a band of mercenary soldiers brings extra tension to the town. When a young girl’s body is discovered hidden in a chest, Baldwin and Simon are pulled into a chain of increasingly brutal killings that terrorise the community.

At Tavistock’s famous fair a butcher stumbles on a headless corpse, and no one can say who the victim was. With the abbey and town awash in rumour and visiting strangers, Baldwin and Simon must trace a nameless dead man through a web of rivalries and greed.

Runaway serf Peter Bruther thinks he has gained freedom by joining the protected tin miners on Dartmoor. When he is found hanging from a tree, Baldwin and Simon must untangle landlord fury, miners’ rackets and the threat of revolt to uncover who wanted him silenced.

Midwife and healer Agatha Kyteler, long whispered about as a witch, is found mutilated in a frozen hedge, and a village youth flees in panic. Baldwin doubts the easy verdict and, with Simon Puttock, must probe jealousy, superstition and buried grudges before another innocent is destroyed.

In 1316 Devon, a burned-out cottage hides a murdered corpse, and new bailiff Simon Puttock quickly clashes with enigmatic ex-Templar Baldwin Furnshill, who insists the death was no accident. Their first joint investigation digs up village secrets, church politics and the brutal legacy of the destroyed Templar order.