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A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and the discovery of a strangely mutilated body attract the attention of Italy’s special Art Crimes Department. For the fire is only the latest in a troubling series of arsons and break-ins at the cathedral, which houses what millions believe to be the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
A cop as well as an art historian, department chief Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he’s certain is about to shock the world. Someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud, and Valoni’s only suspect is currently serving out a sentence in a Turin prison. Following a trail from the earliest Christian communities to the highest councils of the Vatican and the boardrooms that rule the world, Valoni and his associates will find themselves in the cross fire of an ancient conflict.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780739346754
- File size: 434472 KB
- Duration: 15:05:08
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- English
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Reviews
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October 30, 2006
For readers who can't get enough of the religious suspense genre, here's a heaping helping of more of the same. When the unidentified body of a tongueless man turns up in the ashes of a suspicious fire in the Turin cathedral, home of the Holy Shroud of Turin, Marco Valoni, director of the Italian Art Crimes Department, investigates. This gruesome find reflects a pattern of tongueless men and mysterious fires that goes back many years and centers on the shroud. A history of Jesus' burial cloth through the ages alternates with a modern mystery involving several shadowy, anonymous groups of powerful, wealthy men, who either want to steal the sacred cloth or protect it. Marco and his band of art crimes cops and researchers must piece together who wants what and why. This was a bestseller in Europe, and while Navarro never gets up to Da Vinci Code
speed, she does neatly solve the pesky problem of just why carbon dating puts the age of the shroud at the 13th or 14th century. -
This European bestseller concerns a plot to steal the Shroud of Turin and possess its supposed power. Mixing history and plausible fiction, the story follows police investigator, and art historian, Marco Valoni as he races to stop the theft. The historical vignettes give context, and are a nice counterpoint, to Valoni's situation, and the action is continuous. James Langton's expressive voice is calm, almost serene, and fits well with this abridgment. He gives credible accents and voices to the characters--male, female, ancient Hebrew, or modern Italian. All are performed with skill and appropriate expression. Narrative sections are performed consistently and with the same skill. All this makes for splendid listening. M.T.F. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine -
February 26, 2007
The Da Vinci Code
, in all its many incarnations, has a lot to answer for. This latest entry in the religious suspense sweepstakes is by a bestselling Spanish novelist, who stirs up the pot by mixing fact and fiction to tell what happened to the legendary Shroud of Turin, supposedly Jesus' burial garment. Several centuries of sturm und drang—including perhaps one severed tongue too many—whiz by, lightened only by the odd liturgical chant, as reader Langton uses his best Masterpiece Theater
British accent to hit the high points. Of course there's a modern detective who develops some new leads. But unless you positively can't live without your daily dose of anti-Vatican paranoia, this is probably one to skip. Simultaneous release with the Bantam hardcover (Reviews, Oct. 30).
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