Shadow of MadnessThe Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Winning Author Tuscany. Winter, 1540. Travelling north into the hills above Florence, investigator Cesare Aldo seeks answers about his past. The trail leads him to Ospedale de Pazzi, a secure institution for the criminally insane. Soon after arriving a blizzard engulfs the area, trapping Aldo and his companion, Doctor Saul Orvieto. Even more alarming, their cart driver is found dead. It looks like he

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delving into the thorny territories of race and culture and belonging

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Shes really into Edinburghs secret societies but turns out they are less into her

which ended badly when most of the bird and insect samples he was carrying were lost in a fire on the ship taking him back to England

a breakthrough in artificial intelligence that has taken him half a decade to achieve

a mountain of paperwork

Glyn’s assertion that there must be a local connection is overruled by his superiors

a tour de deathly force

At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which buried Pompeii

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and where love is finally given the space to bloom