sacrilege (giordano bruno novels book 3)  <b>a gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century england and centered on the highly secretive cult of saint thomas becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in canterbury cathedral.</b><br /> <br /> london, summer of 1584: radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy giordano bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. he is shocked to discover that his pursuer is in fact sophia underhill, a young woman with whom he was once in love. when bruno learns that sophia has been accused of murdering her husband, a prominent magistrate in canterbury, he agrees to do anything he can to help clear her name.<br /> <br />in the city that was once england&apos;s greatest center of pilgrimage, bruno begins to uncover unsuspected secrets that point to the dead man being part of a larger and more dangerous plot in the making. he must turn his detective&apos;s eye on history—on saint thomas becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in canterbury cathedral, and on the legend surrounding the disappearance of his body—in order to solve the crime.<br /> <br />as bruno&apos;s feelings for sophia grow more intense, so does his fear that another murder is about to take place—perhaps his own. but more than bruno&apos;s life is at stake in this vividly rendered, impeccably researched, and addictively page-turning whodunit—the stability of the kingdom hangs in the balance as bruno hunts down a brutal murderer in the shadows of england&apos;s most ancient cathedral.