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    Prince of Darkness

    Part of A Medieval Mystery

    Author Sharon Kay Penman
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    Berkley / NAL | Berkley
    On sale Mar 07, 2006 | 336 Pages | 9781440622762
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    The Edgar®-nominated author of the medieval mysteries featuring Justin de Quincy places the Queen’s Man far from home—and in the presence of a most cunning foe...

    Justin de Quincy has been lured to Paris by his nemesis, Prince John, on a mission of mercy. The prince is suspected in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. Despite John’s hunger for the crown, he’s unwilling to put himself at risk for regicide—and he wants Justin’s help in discrediting the document that implicates him.
     
    Justin only concedes to John’s request when he realizes that the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is also at risk. It is a concession that will take him to a bloody chamber at Mont St Michel, to a putrid dungeon in Brittany, to a murderous encounter in a Paris cemetery, and to the unraveling of a conspiracy that might have changed the course of English history.
    © William Penman Jr
    Sharon Kay Penman is the author of ten previous historical novels and four mysteries. A lawyer by training, she became a full-time novelist by her mid-thirties. Among writers who admire her work are Margaret George, Steve Berry, George R. R. Martin, and Bernard Cornwell. Penman passed away in 2021. View titles by Sharon Kay Penman
    Praise for Sharon Kay Penman's Medieval Mysteries

    “History and fiction bound up together in historical novels have always had their own uneasy alliance. Penman deftly makes the mesh work.”—The Washington Post Book World

    “It is through the characters created from her imagination that Penman manages to create a believable twelfth-century environment.”—Chicago Tribune

    “Penman manages to illuminate the alien shadowland of the Middle Ages and populate it with vital characters whose politics and passions are as vivid as our own. She writes about the medieval world with vigor, compassion, and clarity.”—San Francisco Chronicle

    “Full of swordplay, bawdy byplay, and derring-do, The Queen's Man is a full-bodied historical romp, steeped in period detail.”—The Houston Chronicle

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    The Edgar®-nominated author of the medieval mysteries featuring Justin de Quincy places the Queen’s Man far from home—and in the presence of a most cunning foe...

    Justin de Quincy has been lured to Paris by his nemesis, Prince John, on a mission of mercy. The prince is suspected in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. Despite John’s hunger for the crown, he’s unwilling to put himself at risk for regicide—and he wants Justin’s help in discrediting the document that implicates him.
     
    Justin only concedes to John’s request when he realizes that the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is also at risk. It is a concession that will take him to a bloody chamber at Mont St Michel, to a putrid dungeon in Brittany, to a murderous encounter in a Paris cemetery, and to the unraveling of a conspiracy that might have changed the course of English history.

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    © William Penman Jr
    Sharon Kay Penman is the author of ten previous historical novels and four mysteries. A lawyer by training, she became a full-time novelist by her mid-thirties. Among writers who admire her work are Margaret George, Steve Berry, George R. R. Martin, and Bernard Cornwell. Penman passed away in 2021. View titles by Sharon Kay Penman

    Praise

    Praise for Sharon Kay Penman's Medieval Mysteries

    “History and fiction bound up together in historical novels have always had their own uneasy alliance. Penman deftly makes the mesh work.”—The Washington Post Book World

    “It is through the characters created from her imagination that Penman manages to create a believable twelfth-century environment.”—Chicago Tribune

    “Penman manages to illuminate the alien shadowland of the Middle Ages and populate it with vital characters whose politics and passions are as vivid as our own. She writes about the medieval world with vigor, compassion, and clarity.”—San Francisco Chronicle

    “Full of swordplay, bawdy byplay, and derring-do, The Queen's Man is a full-bodied historical romp, steeped in period detail.”—The Houston Chronicle

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