Simon Beaufort, Author . Severn $28.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6856-5
Two deaths—the stabbing murder of Harry Mappestone at his Herefordshire castle, Goodrich, in September 1102, and the apparently more natural passing of the duchess of Normandy across the Channel the following spring—propel Beaufort's
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Simon Beaufort, Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6917-3
An overly convoluted plot mars an otherwise solid historical, the seventh to feature Sir Geoffrey Mappestone (after April 2010's Deadly Inheritance). In September 1103, Geoffrey and his friend, Sir Roger of Durham, both former crusader knights, must
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Simon Beaufort, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-19566-3
In this first volume of a projected series, the setting is 12th-century Jerusalem, as conflicted then as it is now. Victorious Crusaders battle heat, grit, Saracens, Greeks, Jews and one another to retain sway over the captured city. Sir Geoffrey de
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Simon Beaufort, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (378p) ISBN 978-0-312-20549-2
Set shortly after the killing of English King William Rufus in 1100, this absorbing historical mystery features the return of Sir Geoffrey Mappestone, the unusual crusader knight and unwilling amateur detective who first appeared in Murder in the...
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Simon Beaufort, Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6972-2
In Beaufort's intricate, meticulously researched eighth historical featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone (after 2010's The Bloodstained Throne), Henry, the English king, orders the former crusader knight to southern Wales in the fall of 1103 to deliver...
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Simon Beaufort. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8327-8
In this darkly comic psychological thriller from Beaufort (the joint pen name of Susanna Gregory and Beau Riffenburgh), what should have been a minor procedural indiscretion—the illicit possession of a criminal case file—leaves police constable...
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Simon Beaufort. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8639-2
The eight members of a scientific expedition run into trouble on Livingston Island off Antarctica in this engrossing thriller from Beaufort (The Murder House). When marine biologist Andrew Berrister and five other researchers return to their...
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Simon Beaufort. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8762-7
In the tantalizing prologue of this so-so Victorian series launch from Beaufort (the pseudonym of Susanna Gregory and Beau Riffenburgh), an unnamed narrator recalls stealing a letter in 1869 from a scientist “who had proven to be a colossus greater...
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Simon Beaufort, Author, Bernard Knight, Author, Michael Jecks, Author ). Simon & Schuster U.K. $14.95 (502p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6795-3
This entertaining but uneven round-robin effort by six British crime writers traces the sinister history of a "fragment of the true cross" from its origin in Jerusalem in A.D. 1100 through 10 bloody centuries. In Beaufort's prologue,...
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The Medieval Murderers. Simon & Schuster U.K. (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-84737-676-3
A meteorite that lands in an isolated Greenland settlement in 1067 propels the so-so sixth collaborative mystery (after 2009's King Arthur's Bones) from the Medieval Murderers (Susanna Gregory, Simon Beaufort, Bernard Knight, Karen Maitland, Ian...
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Simon Beaufort. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8891-4
At the start of Beaufort’s intriguing second Victorian mystery (after 2018’s Mind of a Killer), Pall Mall Gazette reporters Alec Lonsdale and Hulda Friederichs are covering the opening of London’s new Natural History Museum in December 1882 when...
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