D. V. Bishop是获奖作家David Bishop的笔名。他对佛罗伦萨市和文艺复兴时期的热爱意味着他的犯罪小说只能有一个背景。切萨雷-阿尔多系列的《复仇之城》赢得了血腥苏格兰犯罪写作节的 "精妙投篮 "比赛和新西兰图书爱好者奖的书。它还入围了威尔伯-史密斯探险写作奖。毕晓普在写作该小说时获得了罗伯特-路易斯-史蒂文森奖学金。他在爱丁堡纳皮尔大学教授创意写作。
'Absolutely terrific' - Philip Gwynne Jones, author of the bestselling Nathan Sutherland series.
'D.V Bishop transports you to an utterly convincing 16th century Florence, where the best and worst of human nature constantly circle each other in this tense mystery' S. G. MacLean
Florence. Spring, 1537.
When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets.
His case becomes far more complicated when a man's body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than two dozen times. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests one of the nuns must be the killer.
Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city's most feared criminal court?
As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth, identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of them could ever have imagined . . .
The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.
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