The Bellini CardSent to investigate rumors that a stolen art masterpiece has resurfaced in Venice, eunuch detective Yashim delegates negotiations for the work's return to Polish ambassador Palewski; in an unexpectedly dangerous case with dies to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria. By the author of The Janissary Tree.

tragic suicide

courageous spy but also of a fragile hero

overlords of human and Aelfir alike

Pamela is a pensive

Lansquenet-sous-Tannes

character-driven prose fiction

wine and the blues

Audrey's family has fallen apart

How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post

Evangeline and Jacks will have to do battle with old friends

And the fate of the world rests upon her survival

Archibald Fleet and Clara Entwhistle hoped things would pick up quickly for their new enterprise