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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1998
  • Latest Book:
    July 2019
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Full Series List in Order

An Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery

1 - Watchers of the Dead (Jul-2019)

An Antarctica Thriller

1 - The Killing Ship (Nov-2016)

Geoffrey de Mappestone

1 - Murder in the Holy City (Dec-1998)
2 - A Head for Poisoning (Jul-1999)
3 - The Coiner's Quarrel (Sep-2004)
4 - The Bishop's Brood (Sep-2005)
5 - The King's Spies (Apr-2007)
6 - Deadly Inheritance (Mar-2010)
7 - A Dead Man's Secret (Mar-2011)
8 - The Bloodstained Throne (Apr-2011)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • This first book in the critically acclaimed 11th century mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone. Jerusalem, 1100. On returning to the city following an exhausting desert patrol, Crusader knight Sir Geoffrey Mappestone hears screams comin...



  • The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey MappestoneIn 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...



  • A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Westminster, 1102. Once again about to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is furious to be summoned back by the King, trusting neither his methods of persuasion nor his motives. When he arrives at Court he fin...



  • A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Southampton 1070 Sir Geoffrey Mappestone and his loyal friend Roger seek passage on one of the many ships due to sail to Normandy and then on to the Holy Land. The two knights have been away from the Crusade too long...



  • In 1100, an English knight named was entrusted with a precious religious relic -- a piece of the True Cross, allegedly stained with the blood of Christ. The relic is said to curse anyone who touches with a gruesome end as soon as it leaves their poss...



  • March 1102. Robert de Bellme, the Black Earl of Shrewsbury, is summoned to appear before King Henry, to answer for siding with the Duke of Normandy against the King. Meanwhile, Sir Geoffrey and Sir Roger witness a man murdered the illegitimate nephew...



  • Murder, intrigue and marriage in the Welsh Marches of old . . . When Sir Geoffrey’s unpopular brother, Henry, is murdered, he unwillingly inherits Goodrich Castle in the Welsh Marches. Immediately, his sister pushes him towards a marriage that ...



  • When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of mysterious letters to the restless western reaches of Wales, he agrees only reluctantly. His conviction that the simple mission hides something more s...



  • When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm destroys the ship they are on and casts them ashore. The two knights are unwillingly thrust into the com...






  • PC Helen Anderson commits a cardinal error when she takes files for an upcoming court case home to study. For those files are not supposed to leave the police station - and the minute they fall into the wrong hands, Helen's ordinary, uneventful life ...



  • A group of scientists in the Antarctic face a desperate battle for survival as they are hunted down by hostile intruders. Having spent the summer conducting fieldwork on stark Livingston Island, marine biologist Andrew Berrister is looking forwar...



  • Newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale discovers that a series of seemingly random murders may be connected in this absorbing historical mystery. London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fata...



  • An escaped assassin. A group of cannibals on the run. A threatening letter. Newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale is on the case in this compelling Victorian mystery.“All Londoners will see what the Watchers are capable of on Christmas Eve …" Decembe...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Simon Beaufort has published 13 books.

Simon Beaufort does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Watchers of the Dead, was published in July 2019.

The first book by Simon Beaufort, Murder in the Holy City, was published in December 1998.

Yes. Simon Beaufort has 3 series.