The author has settled into her story with this book and it shows. It has an effortless transition in the story (Rodrigo Borgia is Pope and one year has passed). The previous story is concisely told in order to bring readers back into the plot progression. The tension builds as Francesca searches...
I'm really interested in how dark the character of Francesca is and to see how she changes over time. This one goes to some pretty dark, but classic, places. She was yet again chasing the same adversary. Is it going to be the same one in every book? I will probably get tired of it if that's the c...
These books are fun! Extra points for the heroine, who seems more like a real person than 90% of the other female characters in books. For instance: she likes sex; she has her own goals in life, which sometimes (always!) conflict with the assumptions other people make about her; she couldn't care...
An event in which we generally have no control whatsoever suddenly becomes susceptible to the most exacting manipulation. But before I became too absorbed in the details of the affair, there were practical matters to be considered, chief among them the disposal of the body. I proposed that Luigi ...
Generally, they form a residue on any surface that even a person of middling sensibility will notice in time to avoid. It has taken me years to create a highly lethal contact poison for use on glass, a surface so difficult to taint as to be virtually above suspicion. Indeed, the Spanish poisoner ...