Under the name Medora Sale, Caroline Roe has penned six police procedurals, including an award-winning novel. These stories unfold in and around Toronto, featuring homicide detective John Sanders and architectural photographer Harriet Jeffries. As Caroline Roe, she draws upon her doctoral research into medieval religious diversity to craft the character of a 14th-century Jewish physician to the Bishop of Girona, a doctor with influential patients and a keen eye for wrongdoing. Roe is a former president of both Crime Writers of Canada and the international board of Sisters in Crime.
The author of An Antidote for Avarice continues the intriguing adventures of blind Jewish physician Isaac of Gerona. In medieval Spain, Isaac heads the search for the fabled Holy Grail -- and an unholy killer...
Girona, Spain. 1353. Struggling to save his patients from the plague, and avoiding the even greater danger of his wife's temper, Isaac discovers that pestilence isn't the city's only killer. A nun dies in the public baths. Then it is revealed that she is not a nun at all, but an attendant to the queen in nun's disguise. The Bishop of Girona calls upon Isaac to help determine the strange circumstance of her death--and the purpose of her deception. But Isaac soon finds himself and his family caught in a tightening web of royal intrigue designed to destroy the Spanish monarchy--and whoever else gets in the way... * First in an all new medieval mystery series * Fans of The Name of the Rose will love it * Fantastic advance praise from acclaimed authors Bruce Alexander and Candace Robb