Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant

Author:Sarah Dunant [Dunant, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-679-60386-3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

And so the fishing starts. Within hours, the Tiber around San Girolamo is clogged by boatmen from all over Rome, trawling and poking the muddy waters, spurred on by the promise of a reward. It fast becomes the joke of the day: the Borgia Pope, whatever his reputation for corruption, has turned out to be a real fisher of men. His enemies laugh hardest of all.

The river proves only too eager to disgorge its grotesque treasures. The first corpse comes up fast: a young man, half dressed, with a fat knife wound in the chest: the flesh of the face swollen and nibbled by fish but still recognizable. Except that no one knows who he is.

Not long after that a shout goes up as a trawling net snares a sodden mass of velvet and flesh. And now, sure enough, it is Juan, Duke of Gandia, who rises from the foul water, decorated with bits of debris and fully clothed down to his shoes, gloves and purse, still heavy with ducats, hanging from his belt. He might be ready for a night on the town, save for the fact that his legs and torso are riddled with stab wounds and his neck is a gaping grin of slashed flesh. Behind his back, his arms are tied fast. Whoever did this clearly enjoyed themselves.

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