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  • Cesare Aldo, Book 3
  • By: D. V. Bishop
  • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
  • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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Ritual of Fire

By: D. V. Bishop
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Summary

Florence. Summer, 1538.

A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier, puritanical monk Girolamo Savonarola was executed the same way. Does this new killing mean his fanatical disciples are reviving the monk’s regime of holy terror?

Cesare Aldo is busy hunting thieves in the Tuscan countryside, leaving Constable Carlo Strocchi to investigate the killing. When another merchant is burned alive in public, the rich start fleeing to their country estates. But the Tuscan hills can also be dangerous.

Growing religious fervour and a scorching heatwave drives the city ever closer to madness. Meanwhile, someone is stalking those powerful men who forged lifelong bonds in the dark days of Savonarola.

Unless Aldo and Strocchi work together, all of Florence will be consumed by an inferno of death and destruction.

Ceremonial murder has returned to Florence. Only two men can end the destruction. Featuring Officer Cesare Aldo, Ritual of Fire is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy.

Ritual of Fire is the third Cesare Aldo mystery, preceded by City of Vengeance and The Darkest Sin.

©2023 D. V. Bishop (P)2023 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

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It's hard to think of a better guide than D.V.Bishop to the brutality and glamour of Renaissance Florence. Religion and lust? Money and politics? It's all here, combined into a murderous brew (Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of Ashes of London)
A deft and engrossing historical thriller set in Renaissance Florence drawing on the fascinating and troubling legacy of Girolamo Savonarola. I thoroughly enjoyed the latest - and I think best - in DV Bishop's brilliant series (Anna Mazzola)
In Ritual of Fire, the third scintillating Cesare Aldo novel, D.V. Bishop once again immerses us in sixteenth-century Florence and the heady intrigues of Renaissance Italy. Aldo is a magnificent creation (Vaseem Khan, author of Midnight at Malabar House)

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Another brilliant historical 'Whodunnit' from D V Bishop. As a regular visitor to Florence, I recently took this book with me. And Wow, it was total Immersion. An exhibition about the Ghetto in the 16th century further drew my respect for the authors' historical accuracy and attention to detail. If you are planning a visit to Florence, and you like historical mysteries, then listen to this book when you walk the cobbled streets!

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Another good story

The Third in this series this book is just as good as the first two!

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