The Outcast Dove
A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery
-
-
5.0 • 2 Ratings
-
-
- $12.99
-
- $12.99
Publisher Description
Catherine Le Vendeur's curiosity and passion for justice have sometimes led her to solve grisly murders and brave horrors... but this time the threat is to those she loves.
Catherine's family business relies on her cousin Solomon to negotiate the treacherous path to riches. The fact that Solomon is her cousin is secret, however, because he's Jewish--and if their family connections were discovered, it could mean ruin or death. When Solomon's father, who rejected Judaism for the more socially acceptable Christianity, asks for his help, Solomon must come to a decision about who he is, and where he really belongs.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a surprising twist, Newman's ninth engrossing medieval historical (after 2002's Heresy) features not her usual heroine, Catherine LeVendeur, a French Catholic woman (with concealed Jewish lineage), but Catherine's earthy and virile cousin, Solomon though she keeps their connection quiet because Solomon was raised Jewish. When Christians seize a young Jewish woman during the conquest of the Spanish city of Almeira, Solomon joins the rescue party. En route, he encounters his reviled father, Jacob, who has converted to Catholicism and is now a monk called Brother James. James is on an oddly similar mission to ransom Catholic knights captured by Muslims. When a fellow monk dies in what appears to be a random attack, James, who's carrying the ransom money, fears he may be the killer's next target. Will the son he abandoned help him? Solomon's struggles between his Jewish heritage and his attachment to things secular will resonate with many readers, while the author's intriguing picture of a crusade-laden world with its battles among Jew, Catholic and Muslim is all too relevant and recognizable. FYI: Newman has won the Romantic Times Bookclub's Career Achievement Award for Historical Mystery (1999).
