Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city’s northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets.
When a man’s body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than two dozen times, the case becomes even more complicated. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests one of the nuns must be the killer.
Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the River Arno that belong to an officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city’s most feared criminal court?
As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth, identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of them could ever have imagined
The Darkest Sin by DV Bishop is published in paperback on 2 March, 2023.
It’s the second in his Cesare Aldo series.
David has written about the background to this book in The truth about nuns in 16th-century Florence. You might also enjoy his piece about researching 16th-century Florence, Walking in the footsteps of Florentine history.
