Synopsis
'Pretty much everything I want in an historical thriller - an absolutely terrific read' Philip Gwynne Jones
'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' Abir Mukherjee
Florence. Spring, 1537.
When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city’s northern quarter, he...
Details
03 March 2022432 pages
9781529038835Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
He is fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom and S. J. Parris with his page-turning novels. Highly recommendedHistorical Novel Society
Pretty much everything I want in an historical thriller - an absolutely terrific read, in a series that’s clearly going from strength to strengthPhilip Gwynne Jones
A real pleasure. A lavender-scented, sun-drenched convent hidden among the backstreets of Florence is the absorbing setting for Cesare Aldo's latest investigation. The conflicting ambitions and ideals of its cast of interesting women make this an engrossing mystery
Leonora Nattrass, author of Black Drop
D.V Bishop transports you to an utterly convincing 16th century Florence, where the best and worst of human nature constantly circle each other in this tense mysteryS. G. MacLean
