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The Darkest Sin
Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023
Series: Cesare Aldo series
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The Darkest Sin
An atmospheric locked-room historical thriller set against the backdrop of the Medici dynasty in 1530s Renaissance Florence and the sequel to City of Vengeance.
An atmospheric locked-room historical thriller set against the backdrop of the Medici dynasty in 1530s Renaissance Florence and the sequel to City of Vengeance.
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Absolutely terrific - Philip Gwynne Jones, author of the bestselling Nathan Sutherland series.
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 mystery - S. G. MacLean
Florence. Spring, 1537.
When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets.
His case becomes far more complicated when a man's body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than two dozen times. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests one of the nuns must be the killer.
Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city's most feared criminal court?
As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth, identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of them could ever have imagined.
The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.
Series: Cesare Aldo series
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The Darkest Sin by D. V. Bishop receives praise for its richly atmospheric setting in 16th-century Florence, where a gripping mystery unfolds within a convent's walls. Reviewers commend the novel for its intriguing characters, particularly the resourceful protagonist Cesare Aldo, and the expertly interwoven suspenseful narrative. It is celebrated as a compelling and absorbing read in the historical thriller genre, drawing favourable comparisons to notable authors like C. J. Sansom.
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ISBN: 9781529038828
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 March 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 42.0mm
Width: 163.0mm
Height: 243.0mm
Weight: 656g
Pages: 432
About the Author
D. V. Bishop is the pseudonym of award-winning writer David Bishop. His love for the city of Florence and the Renaissance period meant there could be only one setting for his crime fiction. The first book in the Cesare Aldo series, City of Vengeance, won the Pitch Perfect competition at the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival and the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book. It was also shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Bishop was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship while writing that novel. He teaches creative writing at Edinburgh Napier University. The Darkest Sin is the second novel in the Cesare Aldo series.
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