Description
Product ID: | 9781847519115 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | A Christine de Pizan Mystery |
Title: | In the Presence of Evil |
Authors: | Author: Tania Bayard |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, France, c 1000 CE to c 1500 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Paris, 1393. Scribe Christine de Pizan dreads going to the palace to work, where people believe the mad king can be cured with magic. But a certain spell book leaves murdered bodies in its wake. Then Hugues de Précy is murdered and his wife, Alix, is blamed. Can Christine prove Alix''s innocence and save her from being burned at the stake? Christine de Pizan is hired to be a scribe for the King in 14th Century France but finds more than she bargained for as a trail of bodies are found. |
Imprint Name: | Severn House |
Publisher Name: | Canongate Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-02-28 |