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City of Vengeance

✍ Scribed by Aldo, Cesare;Bishop, D. V

Book ID: 100532073
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Weight: 284 KB
Series: Cesare Aldo [1]
Category: Fiction
City: Florence (Italy), Italy,Italy., Italy--Florence.
ISBN: 1760984949

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✦ Synopsis

'Richly atmospheric . . . transports you to another time and place'
Ambrose Parry, author of The Way of All Flesh
** _
City of Vengeance_ is an explosive debut historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence.**
Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth.
Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of the Renaissance city's most feared criminal court, is given four days to solve the murder: catch the killer before the feast of Epiphany - or suffer the consequences.
During his investigations Aldo uncovers a plot to overthrow the volatile ruler of Florence, Alessandro de' Medici. If the Duke falls, it will endanger the whole city. But a rival officer of the court is determined to expose details about Aldo's private life that could lead to his ruin. Can Aldo stop the conspiracy before anyone...