Title: The Parisian prodigal
Description: In 1205, Theophilos<U+2014>a fool by trade, a family man by choice, and a spy by design<U+2014>belongs, along with his family, to the Fools<U+2019> Guild, a group that secretly maintains the fragile order of society. In Toulouse, that order is threatened when, unexpectedly, a man claiming to be a full brother of the ruling count is found one morning in a local bordello next to a dead whore, killed with his own sword. Now, Theophilos and his family must uncover the truth.
Subjects: Fools and jesters, Feste (Fictitious character), Fiction, Murder, Investigation, History, City and town life, Societies, Feste (Fictitious character : Gordon), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, France, fiction
Places: France, Toulouse (France)
Time periods: 13th century