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October 2012
On Sale: October 2, 2012
ISBN: 0425253104
EAN: 9780425253106
Kindle: B008EXNW46
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Mystery
In her historic mysteries The Rhetoric of Death and The
Eloquence of Blood, Judith Rock created an atmosphere that
"takes you back to fascinating and dangerous
seventeenth-century Paris so well that I suspect her of
being a time-traveler who's been there" (Ariana Franklin,
national bestselling author of A Murderous Procession). Now,
the latest novel to feature Charles du Luc finds the
ex-soldier-turned-Jesuit caught up in royal intrigue... Versailles, 1687 Madame de Maintenon is King Louis XIV’s second wife. The
daughter of a minor noble of ill-repute, she has not
forgiven the king's Jesuit confessor for encouraging him to
withhold the title of Queen from her. To placate her, the
prestigious Louis le Grand Jesuit school has sent a
delegation—including her distant cousin Pere Jouvancy and
rhetoric teacher Charles du Luc—to Versailles with a gift of
reliquary. But while the Sun King’s palace might be spectacular, this
visit is anything but pleasant. Their first night, a
courtier dies, and court whispers claim poison. Then the
Jesuit delegation falls direly ill, and a palace gardener is
found murdered. Fear grips a court already on edge. In the
midst of all this, Charles learns that one of his students
is in love with the king’s rebellious (and betrothed)
daughter, and may ruin not only himself, but all of them …
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