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The crime-solving duo known as the King's Hounds - Halfdan and his master, Winston - are investigating a possible plot against King Cnut by onetime enemy-turned-ally Jarl Thorkell. Joined on the arduous journey by Winston's woman, Alfilda, and Atheling, his cranky mule, they venture to the markets in Thetford to gather information.
On the way, they meet a wealthy farmer who is seeking justice at the District Court against a thane accused of rape. When the thane tells a bald-faced lie in court, resulting in a dismissal of the charges, all hell breaks loose. In a time when noblemen are the law and they can't be trusted to be ethical, the law has no meaning.
When the thane turns up dead, the tables turn and the accuser becomes the accused. Winston and Halfdan race to solve the crime before the region erupts in violence. Allegiances are tested and motives questioned in this captivating drama of justice and treachery in medieval England.
A Man's Word: The King's Hound Series, by Martin Jensen, Tara Chace - translator - Amazon Sales Rank: #58569 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 421 minutes
A Man's Word: The King's Hound Series, by Martin Jensen, Tara Chace - translator
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. a slow meal and not satisfying. By bluewynd I love this series, the characters , the story, the world, all of it. having said that; this book lacked something. the mystery was still there, but the character of halfdane changed. He was a bully to the woman in his life. he was also self righteous and angry throughout the book. He treated his newest lady friends like a whore; so no surprise when she kicked him to the side. perhaps this is part of his evolving character and maybe he learns from it somehow. the other two characters were also lacking, again perhaps because this IS a halfway/ filler book. they are "on their way" to another town and this story was a stop in the road. I do like the information on peoples lives back in that era. but the focus on eating was a bit much. I had this to eat, I ate that, hungry now, etc. maybe the focus of life back then was to eat. but there seemed a lot of filler, and a slow build of the story. I am looking forward to the next book, and hope it improves.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Crimes and potential unrest in East Anglia (three and a half stars) By JPS This is the third title of the series. Just like the second title (“Oathbreaker”), the translation has somewhat improved. There still are a few “glitches” that jar when set in an early eleventh century England context (Halfdane saying “you guys” in particular) but not half as many as in the first volume and hardly enough to justify a bit rant and a downgrading of the book below four stars.As in the second title, and something that I did not in fact mention when reviewing it, Halfdane, the landless son of a deceased thane who was killed in battle against King Cnut, has a larger role alongside Winston the Illuminator, his master (and, in modern terms, his employer), with the addition of Alfriada, Winston’s “woman” and a former innkeeper who sold her inn to follow Winston and his companion – the King’s Hounds - on their adventures.The novel takes place in Spring 1019. The action begins with the three at the monastery of Peterborough where Winston has finally accepted to illuminate one of the monastery’s religious books while Halfdane grows increasingly bored. King Cnut plans to travel back to Denmark, in order to consolidate his reign there, but is wary to do so until he has ensured that some of his most powerful warlords, and Thorkell the Tall, earldorman of East Anglia in particular, will remain loyal to him. He therefore “encourages” once again his “Hounds” to travel to yet another monastery, this time in East Anglia, on the pretext that Winston can do some work over there, and to keep their eyes open and check for unrest and plots. On their way there, the rapist son a powerful thane is murdered, shortly followed by the farmer who had denounced him and brought him to Court. The Kings Hounds need to find the culprit(s) rather quickly unless the law and justice promised by King Cnut a few months before publicly before all of his thanes is to be shown to be an empty promise.Unlike another reviewer, I rather liked this book and did not see it as filing a gap between other titles. Having mentioned this, I did not, however, enjoy it as much as the second one (Oathbreaker) or even as much as the first one (the King’s Hounds). Having thought about it for quite some time, I believe the main reason had to do with the book’s pace, which I found a bit slow going at times. While some of the characters are quite interesting, for instance Thane Delwyn and the farmer’s widow, Halfdan’s behaviour – a mixture of boorishness and petty jealousy at times – did not quite strike the right note or, perhaps more accurately, was somewhat at odds with his behaviour in the first two books where he seemed, on the contrary, to be maturing. Here, he seems at times to behave just like the arrogant and utterly selfish teenager son of a thane who got himself murdered, except that our “hero” does not assault and rape women…Three and a half stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Welcon Addition to the King's Hounds Series By Tom Oxenham "A Man's Word" is the third book in the author's "King's Hounds" series of murder mysteries set in Danish-conquered England circa 1020. I have been a fan of Martin Jensen's "King's Hounds" books since I read the first in the series, aptly titled "The King's Hounds." I eagerly anticipated the availability of his two suceeding novels, "Oathbreaker" and, now, "A Man's Word." All three novels are well written with interesting plots and characters, and are meticulously researched for historical accuracy which is a plus for me as a former student majoring in history as well as a historical novel buff. One mystery the author has not explained is why a Danish author, who has won awards for his mystery writing in Denmark, should choose to set his "King's Hounds" books in the country that will eventually be called England, during the brief period when the English throne was occupied by a Danish king, Cnute "the Great." For those readers who are not familiar with the King's Hounds novels, the main character, and the books' narrator, is Halfdan, the son of a Saxon thane and a Danish mother, giving him a foot in both camps. Halfdan's father and older brother are both killed in the final battle between Cnute's forces and those supporting the Saxon king. As often happened to families on the losing sides of Europe's dynastic struggles of the early Middle Ages, Halfdan's father's land is confiscated and given to one of Cnute's supporters. Halfdan, trained as a warrior and accustomed to living life as a member of the nobility, becomes a vagabond, traveling about the country living on his wits and his sword. That is until he meets Winston, the Illuminator, who was trained in the art of illuminating medieval manuscripts as a novice monk but who left the monastic order and now travels from cathedral to monastery to abbey as a contract illuminator whose talent is in great demand. The two travellers inevitably meet on the road, and Winston offers to hire Halfdan, both as a source of companionship and, perhaps more importantly given the times, as a source of protection. Thus, Halfdan becomes Winston's "man," and the two of them show innate talents as detectives when they solve a murder of an influential Saxon nobleman who is killed during a conclave of all the nobility in the land, both Saxon as well as Danish, called by Cnute to produce a single legal code which will govern the country henceforth. In so doing the two also foil a conspiracy which threatens Cnute's hold on the throne, and thus, they become known as the King's Hounds as Cnute employs them to be his eyes and ears as they travel about the land, ostensibly to pursue Winston's employment by various religious and political factions to illuminate their manuscripts. Along the way, the duo just happen to solve murders, each with some tinge of political intrique, by applying Winston's method, based on his artistic training, of examining even the smallest piece of evidence and placing it in the appropriate context until the combination of these small pieces reveals the whole picture. In "A Man's Word," our heroes, now accompanied by Alfilda, a former tavern keeper who has become Winston's lover, deal with the system of justice that weights the value of a man's testimony (women would not be allowed to participate in these 11th century trials) was measured by his status in life and cases were decided on the cumulative value of the men's oaths sworn in favor of one party or the other, hence the title of the book. In the trial which provides the context for this mystery, a free farmer's claim against a nobleman's son, accused of raping one of the farmer's female slaves, turns on the combined total value of the oaths sworn by the farmer and his neighbors, also free men, against the oath of the noble defendant, who prevails in the case by presenting the obviously perjured oath of a fellow nobleman's son. When both the plaintiff farmer and the noble defendant turn up dead within hours of each other, the local reeve, the thane charged by the king with maintaining local order, requests that Winston and Halfdan solve the killings. And, as another fictional detective would say 81/2 centuries later, "The game is afoot." As our intrepid trio works to solve the mystery, Jensen fills the background with vivid word pictures describing 11th century life in what will become England. Even non-history lovers will find themselves better versed on this obscure era as the try to solve the murder before the heroes do. For history buffs like me, the descriptions of life in this era, the political hierachy, and (for me as a lawyer) the legal system, in which some of the foundations of the common law, shared by English-speaking countries around the world, can be found, are a gratefully received bonus. Unlike other books I have read that are originally written in another laguage and then translated to English, the three King's Hounds novels do not sound stiff or awkward when the translator encounters an idiomatic expression that has no direct counterpart in English. I don't know if this is because Danish is easily translated into English or just due to the admirable job that Tara Chance does with her translation of Martin Jensen's Danish. (Given her credentials, I rather think it is the latter) The end result is a novel that is enjoyable on many levels and is a welcome addition to the King's Hounds series.
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