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Prince of Darkness
by
Sharon Kay Penman
The Justin de Quincy
Mysteries
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From the New York Times-bestselling
author of Time and Chance, the much anticipated fourth novel in her
acclaimed medieval mystery series.
Bowing to an urgent summons from his former lover, Justin de Quincy hastens
to Paris only to find that the Lady Claudine was, in fact, acting on behalf
of his nemesis Prince John. As the Queen's man, de Quincy has already
encountered John's murderous side. But now John tells him of a document
implicating him in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. The document is
a forgery, and, despite his hunger for the crown, John is innocent of the
charge. Still, a brother who looked with amiable contempt at John's earlier
intrigues would hardly risk regicide. John must find the forger and prove
the document false before Richard hears of it, and he entreats Justin to
help him.
It takes more than John's wily charms to persuade Justin: It is only when he
realizes that the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is
also at risk that Justin concedes. It is a concession that will take him to
a bloody chamber on Mont-Saint-Michel, to a stinking dungeon in Brittany, to
a murderous encounter in a Paris cemetery, and, ultimately, to the
unraveling of a conspiracy that might have changed the course of history.
Published March 2006
by Penguin
Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0425207819
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