<p><b>'Pretty much everything I want in an historical thriller - an absolutely terrific read' Philip Gwynne Jones</b><br><br><b>'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</b><br><br><b>Florence. Spring, 1537.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an officer of the law missi
