A gruesome murder in a sleepy village leads to drama laced with witchcraft, depravity, and secrets. England, 1324 – a land rife with superstition and gripped by fear of the Church's holy wrath. When a beggar is murdered in the quiet village of Bottesford, his body draped across the altar of St. Mary's church in a perverse pose of pagan sacrifice, the Pope's Inquisitor General places the small hamlet in his sights. Anxious to sta ...
Paris: July 1890. Inspector Achille Lefebvre and his wife Adele are enjoying their stay at a seaside resort-until a body found hanging from a bridge in a public park demands the Inspector's attention. Is it suicide or murder? A twisted trail of evidence draws Inspector Lefebvre into a shadowy underworld of international intrigue, espionage, and terrorism. Time is of the essence; pressure mounts on the Surete to get results. Achille's c ...