As I mentioned
a few posts back, when this first dropped to $1.99, I love this series. I am biased to historical mysteries, but even among historicals, this is one of my favorites. Penman's titles don't go on sale very often, at least in the US, so if you think you might want to read it, you should grab it, even though it is the fourth in the far-too-short 4-book series.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Bargain @ $1.99 from Penguin's Berkley imprint in Canada & the US (price should be the same at all the usual retailers):
Prince of Darkness by historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman ( SYKM, Wikipedia), 4th in her Edgar-nominated Medieval Mystery series starring Justin de Quincy, a bastard son of a bishop, who apparently serves Eleanor of Aquitaine circa the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
The Edgar®-nominated author of the medieval mysteries featuring Justin de Quincy places the Queen’s Man far from home—and in the presence of a most cunning foe...
Justin de Quincy has been lured to Paris by his nemesis, Prince John, on a mission of mercy. The prince is suspected in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. Despite John’s hunger for the crown, he’s unwilling to put himself at risk for regicide—and he wants Justin’s help in discrediting the document that implicates him.
Justin only concedes to John’s request when he realizes that the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is also at risk. It is a concession that will take him to a bloody chamber at Mont St Michel, to a putrid dungeon in Brittany, to a murderous encounter in a Paris cemetery, and to the unraveling of a conspiracy that might have changed the course of English history. |