Sacrilege
London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. Instead, he is shocked to discover that his pursuer is in fact Sophia Underhill, a young woman with whom he was once in love. When Bruno learns that Sophia has been accused...
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London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. Instead, he is shocked to discover that his pursuer is in fact Sophia Underhill, a young woman with whom he was once in love. When Bruno learns that Sophia has been accused of murdering her husband, a prominent magistrate of Canterbury, he agrees to do anything he can to help clear her name. But in the city that was once England’s greatest center of pilgrimage, Bruno uncovers a more dangerous plot in the making, one that forces him to turn his detective’s eye to the strange case of Saint Thomas Becket, a twelfth-century cardinal of Canterbury Cathedral whose mysterious murder is only matched by the legend surrounding the disappearance of his body.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307947468 (0307947467)
Publish date: February 12th 2013
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Series: Giordano Bruno (#3)
Sacrilege touches base on a world of opposing moral and lawful difficulty in the small town of Canterbury where words of gossip travel faster than the speed of light. Characters throughout the book are often deadlocked into telling the truth or hiding dark secrets purely out of fear. Each action is ...
I'll preface this review by saying I won this book in the Goodreads Giveaway but I have in no way been compensated for this review. Here we go. Excellent historical mystery. It stayed away from getting bound up in the intricacies of the religious politics of the time and just allowed the reader e...