1. The Bravo
In the Republic of Venice, Jacopo Frontoni is feared as a professional bravo, a man believed to kill at the command of powerful patrons. His reputation places him inside a web of secret tribunals, informers and aristocratic interests, while the forbidden love of Don Camillo Monforte…
2. The Heidenmauer
In the German Palatinate during the Reformation, the town of Dürkheim and the neighbouring Benedictine abbey are drawn into a struggle over religious authority, property and civic power. Old obligations to the monastery confront the spread of reforming ideas, while local families must decide whether inherited…
3. The Headsman
Travellers crossing the Alpine and Swiss world are brought together by danger, mistaken identity and a murder whose consequences extend to the shores of Lake Geneva. At the centre of the novel is Balthazar, the hereditary headsman of Bern, whose office makes him necessary to the…