With the same flawless storytelling that earned her the CWA Historical Dagger Award, Barbara Cleverly delivers a dazzling new novel.
She lives in Cambridge, England where she is now at work on the second Laetitia Talbot mystery, which Delta will publish in 2008..
Letty will need all her determination and knowledge to unravel the secrets beneath the Villa Europa\'s roof-and they will lead her into the darkest, most terrifying place of all....
About the Author: Barbara Cleverly is the author of five novels of historical suspense, including The Damascened Blade, winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award, The Last Kashmiri Rose, Ragtime in Simla, The Palace Tiger, and The Bee\'s Kiss.
From out of the shadows come whispers of past loves, past jealousies, and ancient myths that sound an eerie discord with present events.
But then a beautiful young woman is found hanged and a golden youth drives his Bugatti over a cliff.
Her host, a charismatic archaeologist, is racing to dig up the fabled island\'s next great treasure-even, perhaps, the Tomb of the King of the Gods, himself.
Until she enters the Villa Europa, where something is clearly utterly amiss...
She has chosen a career in the male-dominated world of archaeology, but she approaches her first assignment in Crete the only way she knows how-with dash and enthusiasm.
Born into a background of British privilege, Laetitia Talbot has been raised to believe there is no field in which she may not excel.
Sweeping us to the exotic island of Crete in 1928, Cleverly introduces a marvelous new heroine: whip-smart and spirited Laetitia Talbot, an aspiring archaeologist with a passion for adventure-and for the mysteries that only the keenest eyes can see.
With the same flawless storytelling that earned her the CWA Historical Dagger Award, Barbara Cleverly delivers a dazzling new novel
