City of Vengeance av D. V. Bishop

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<p><b><i>City of Vengeance</i> is an explosive debut novel by D. V. Bishop set in Renaissance Florence, the first in a historical thriller series which continues with <i>The Darkest Sin,</i> winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award.</b><br><br><b>'He is fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom and S. J. Parris' – Historical Novel Society</b><br><br><b>Florence. Winter, 1536.</b> A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth.<br><br>Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of the Renaissance city’s most feared criminal court, is given four days to solve the murder: catch the killer before the feast of Epiphany – or suffer the consequences.<br><br>During his investigations Aldo uncovers a plot to overthrow the volatile ruler of Florence, Alessandro