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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5629353" data-attributes="member: 54707">By the way, today when I went to the library to get Rise of the Huntress I picked up a new detective/mystery novel. By someone called Simon Beaufort. Actually Simon Beaufort is the pen-name of two former Cambridge academics, one an historian, the other a crime writer. Anyway the books follow the career of Sir Geoffrey Mappestone, who is a former Crusader Knight now working for King Henry. Apparently Geoffrey acts as a detective in the novels. Being a former PI myself, and occasionally teaching on crime or helping on cold cases, and liking history a lot (and that period), these books look really interesting to me. (Sometimes I like historical detective works a lot. Not always, but very much sometimes. Just depends on the Dick and how he operates and where and when.) I hear the Mappestone books are well received too. This is the first one I'm reading and I start it tonight, so I can't recommend them yet. But maybe once I get into it. It's called A Dead Man's Secret. Well, I'm on vacation this week and so I'm gonna go eat a sub and watch a Jesse Stone film.</blockquote>