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Cargando... Conspiracypor S. J. Parris
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. After a gap of four and a half years, this is the fifth book in this series of murder mysteries featuring historical Italian religious renegade Giordano Bruno, a refugee from the Inquisition in his Italian homeland in the 1580s. Like the others, it is intricately plotted, but Bruno seems more in his element here and less incongruous as an investigator of a murder mystery surrounding the French throne, than he did in his previous adventures set in England, where I thought his sleuthing was always hindered by his sticking out like a sore thumb in Protestant England of the high Elizabethan era. Despite this being set during the religious wars between Catholic and Protestant, the mystery eventually resolves to being about different more personal issues surrounding King Henri III, his wife Louise and the notorious Queen Mother Catherine de Medici, and the future of the Valois dynasty. Some colourful characters here (historical and fictional) make this a rich brew and I am glad there is at least one more book in this series, to be published in spring 2020. In Paris, Giordano Bruno asks a friend from his university days for help. A few days later the friend is beaten up and before he dies he whispers a cryptic message to Bruno. Bruno must find who the murderer is before the murderer and the people behind the murderer decide he knows too much. It wasn't as immediately gripping as the previous instalment in the series, but once it got going we had excitement, laughter, and tears enough. I do think Bruno's escape from the slaughterhouse stretched credibility to its limits, though. Excellent episode in the ongoing stories about Gordian Bruno. This one is set in Paris and has Bruno investigating at set of murders in the highly charged atmosphere of the Catholic League, under the control of the Duke of Guise, and King Henri III. Bruno is compelled by each party to prove it was the other side that caused the killing. As always, Parris produces a rollicking narrative with plenty of thrills and twists. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"December 1585: King Henry III of France is the last of his line. He has appointed a Protestant as his successor, which has caused a three-way war in his country. As a result, the king is in mortal fear of a coup being orchestrated by the ultra-conservative Catholic League. Radical philosopher, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno, forced to return to Paris, is called upon by King Henry to unearth the motivation behind several mysterious but linked deaths. Each victim is connected to a larger plot to manipulate the royal succession; what they knew and who killed them is a mystery to be solved. Meanwhile, Bruno makes an uneasy alliance with Charles Paget, a key figure in the community of English Catholics who tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. When Bruno is implicated in the death of Leonie, a member of the Queen Mother's 'Flying Squadron,' he is forced to call on Paget and his connections for help--and finds that it comes with a price, involving an old enemy." -- Amazon. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book was still a plenty fun read, and we do get plunged a bit into French history. I am a bit fascinated by Henry IV ... we don't meet him in this book, but the passions surrounding him do appear. It's good historical fiction, for sure. ( )