An Inspector Lynley novel. When Deborah St. James seeks refuge from the rain and her own sadness in the National Gallery, she does not expect to find herself confessing her anguish to an Anglican priest, Robin Sage. Still less to be doing so as they contemplate Leonardo's cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St Anne, wondering why--yet again--why poor Joesph should have been excluded. Far more shocking than confiding in a stranger is the discovery, a few months later, that the Reverend Sage is dead--from accidental poisoning. But as Deborah and her husband Simon, soon realize, the Vicar's death was far from straighforward. As their suspicions grow, the turn to their old friend Lynley, on leave from Scotland Yard, and together they begin to search for the truth.
Elizabeth George is always a good read and this book is no exception.
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Candace M. from MARCO ISLAND, FL wrote on 1/29/2007...
Phillippa flees her father's castle when she hears she is to be wed to a repellent baron. A story of thirteenth century Cornwall - from a bestselling romance author