Christian Cameron, The Venetian Heretic, (Orion 2025)
Intrigue and Inquisators in 17th C Venice.
Richard Hughes, an English fencing master in Venice, a former soldier and galley slave, takes in students and accommodates a studious roommate Filippo. He teaches a woman, an opera singer of some fame.
A professor of philosophy has been murdered in Padua—a libertine. An innkeeper’s wife has gone missing, but why would the Holy Inquisition be looking for her? There are plots and intrigues and people chasing bad guys in gondolas led by a villain in a red mask. The ticking time bomb at the end is marvellous.
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Susie Helme 
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