Judith Rock, Berkley, $15 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-23664-2
Rock's superb historical debut opens with 28-year-old Charles du Luc arriving in 1686 Paris to serve as a teacher of rhetoric in a Jesuit school. He's spent seven years in the Society of Jesus and a stint in the French army that left him with a...
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Judith Rock. Berkley, $15 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-425-24297-1
Set in Paris in 1686 during the Christmas season, Rock's second novel featuring Charles du Luc is every bit the equal of her impressive historical thriller debut, The Rhetoric of Death. When the Jesuit college of Louis le Grand, where Charles is a...
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Judith Rock. Berkley, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-25310-6
In Rock’s fine third 17th-century historical featuring Paris rhetoric teacher Charles de Luc (after 2011’s The Eloquence of Blood), Charles and his mentor, Père Joseph Jouvancy, transport a reliquary to Versailles, a gift to the king’s unofficial...
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Judith Rock. Berkley, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-25366-3
Rock delivers another polished performance in her fourth Charles de Luc mystery set in late-17th-century Paris (after 2012’s A Plague of Lies). When priest-in-training Charles and his confessor, Père Dainville, leave their Jesuit community to pray...
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