Kate Ross throws down the gauntlet to P.D. James with a sweeping 1820s novel, where murder snakes through Italy's sensuous landscapes, grand opera, passionate aristocracy, and turbulent fight for freedom. The ever-popular Julian Kestrel joins a rich cast of characters, drawn from the best Italian opera tradition in this lush and intricate historical suspense novel.
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Kate Ross throws down the gauntlet to P.D. James with a sweeping 1820s novel, where murder snakes through Italy's sensuous landscapes, grand opera, passionate aristocracy, and turbulent fight for freedom. The ever-popular Julian Kestrel joins a rich cast of characters, drawn from the best Italian opera tradition in this lush and intricate historical suspense novel.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Viking Penguin First Edition 1997. Retired Library Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Historical crime novel set in northern Italy in the 1820s. Library card on endpaper and tags on jacket. Book and Jacket are clean, otherwise unmarked, solidly bound, pages completely clean no markings of any kind, no creases. 464 pages. 8vo. 1997, Viking Penguin.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1ST ED. fine in price clipped dust jacket. AGATHA AWARD WINNER & a DILYS AWARD NOMINEE. The 4th and last in historical mystery series featuring Julian Kestel. This one takes place in Italy in the 1820s. The author died shortly after this book was published.
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0670863599. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall. 447 pages. SIGNED by author. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. There is a miniscule ink spot to fore edges, as if someone holding a pen while looking at the book and inadvertently touched the edges with the ballpoint. The mark is miniscule, and hardly noticeable, but for accurate description it is mentioned. Otherwise, this is a very fine copy of the First Printing of the First edition. SIGNED by author on the title page. Collectible.; Signed by Author(s)
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It is really a pity that this is the last book the author wrote before her death. Two are the main reasons. First, because Kestrel's past and potential future will remain a mystery since we've only had a glimpse of the first in this book).
Second, because I think the book is not equal to the previous ones in the series. The relationships are a little shallow and the identity of Orfeo is apparent even in the first one hundred pages of the book.
I am really sorry to give up this more or less great series and its intriguing hero.
Nevertheless, it was a good read and if my expectations had not been so high, based on the previous books, I would have really enjoyed it very much.
