cover image Shroud

Shroud

Barry Friedman. Authors Choice Press, $14.95 (244pp) ISBN 978-0-595-20637-7

Barry Friedman (Assignment: Bosnia), a retired orthopedic surgeon, brings his medical expertise to his third novel, The Shroud. When some perverse trickster steals the Shroud of Turin and returns it torn and blood-stained, Florentine Interpol detective Arturo Benavivo is soon criss-crossing Europe in an effort to crack the increasingly sanguinary case.