Madrigal

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453251867

<DIV><b>A woman is brutally murdered in Avignon&rsquo;s Papal Palace</b></div><DIV></div><DIV>Six hundred years before the Germans conquered Paris, the pope came to Avignon to rule the Roman Church from afar. In January 1943, Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler visit the former Papal Palace&mdash;not as tourists, but as detectives. Where once the pope spoke to God, a woman has had her throat cut.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Her corpse seems to have appeared from out of the past. Despite the strictures of wartime rationing, she died in finery, costumed in the ermine and silk of a Renaissance courtier. She appears to have been killed with a scythe, pulled across her neck in one swift stroke, like a shepherd slaughtering a sheep. Wartime Avignon is a small city, steeped in the jealousy that occupation encourages. As St-Cyr and Kohler dig into the city&rsquo;s past, they find motives for murder that predate the Nazis by centuries.</div>