His books have won him international acclaim and in 2007 his Death Ship of Dartmouth was shortlisted for the Harrogate prize for the best crime novel of the year.Ī member of the Society of Authors and Royal Literary Society, Jecks was the Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association in 2004-2005. He has also written a highly acclaimed modern spy thriller, Act of Vengeance. More recently he has completed his Vintener Trilogy, three stories in his Bloody Mary series, and a new Crusades story set in 1096, Pilgrim's War, following some of the people in the first Crusade on their long pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The series is available as ebooks and all paper formats from Harper Collins, Headline and Simon and Schuster. Famine, war and disease led to widespread despair, and yet the people showed themselves to be resilient. Unusually, the series looks again at actual events and murders committed about the early fourteenth century, a fabulous time of treachery, civil war, deceit and corruption. He is the author of the internationally popular Templar series, perhaps the longest crime series written by a living author. The son of an Actuary, and the youngest of four brothers, he worked in the computer industry before becoming a novelist full time in 1994
Michael Jecks is a best-selling writer of historical novels.
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