


"May well be the best 'historical mystery' ever written."- The Sunday Boston Globe "Ingenious."- The Philadelphia Inquirer " crafty, utterly mesmerizing intellectual thriller…Don't miss it." - The Washington Post Book World "If you liked Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, you should run to buy Iain Pears's lavishly erudite historical mystery." - The New York Times "Fascinating…quite extraordinary…elevates the murder mystery to the category of high art." - Los Angeles "Extraordinary…this thriller brings not merely a huge cast of characters but a whole century vividly to life." - Newsweek " novel that will have you sitting up all night and calling in sick the next day.
