The Devlin diary
By: Christi Phillips
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9781847373199
Subjects: Women physicians; College teachers; Serial murders; Court and courtiers; Courts and courtiers; History; Fiction
Description: London, 1672: A vicious killer stalks the court of Charles II, inscribing his victims' bodies with mysterious markings. Are these the random murders of a madman? The deadly consequence of a personal vendetta? Or the grisly result of a hidden conspiracy? Cambridge, 2008: A Trinity College history professor is found dead, the torn page of a seventeenth-century diary in his hand. His death appears to be an accident, but the college's newest Fellow Claire Donovan and historian Andrew Kent suspect otherwise ...