Bøger af Simon Beaufort

When the highly unpopular Henry Mappestone is found killed, his last-surviving brother, the former crusader knight Sir Geoffrey, unwillingly inherits the castle. But while visiting his friend Bishop Giffard, attempts are made on Geoffrey's life, and several other guests are killed. Are these deaths related to Henry's murder?

The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone In the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone returns to his home at Goodrich Castle on the Welsh border. He is travelling in the company of a knight who claims to be carrying an urgent message for King Henry I. When the knight is killed during an ambush, Geoffrey feels obliged to deliver the message to the King himself, but quickly regrets his decision when the King orders him to spy on his own family in order to ferret out a dangerous traitor. Geoffrey returns home to find his father gravely ill and his older brothers and sister each determined to inherit the Mappestone estate. Geoffrey's father claims he is being poisoned by one of his own children, a claim no one takes seriously until he is found murdered with his own knife in the dead of night. Geoffrey's investigation of the murder, however, takes him far beyond a family quarrel. Accusations are flying, and Geoffrey must prove his own innocence in the face of greed and fear. The villainous Earl of Shrewsbury is clearly implicated, and as Geoffrey delves deeper, he discovers a plot that reaches far beyond the realm of Goodrich Castle to that of the entire kingdom: the assassination of the King.

Jerusalem, 1100. On returning to the city following an exhausting desert patrol, Crusader knight Sir Geoffrey Mappestone hears screams coming from the house of a Greek baker and discovers that one of his closest friends, a fellow knight, has been murdered in the woman's bedchamber. But this is not the first suspicious death in the city.

A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery. Westminster, 1102. About to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is suddenly summoned back by the King. Geoffrey has no choice but to accept the King's commission to investigate whether this is part of a treasonous plot.

A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Southampton 1070

1101: Sir Geoffrey Mappestone is travelling home in the company of a knight carrying an urgent message for the king. When the knight is killed during an ambush, Geoffrey feels obliged to deliver the message himself: but quickly regrets his decision when the king orders him to spy on his own family in order to ferret out a dangerous traitor...