A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel by Rock, Judith

A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780425253106)

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A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel by Rock, Judith

A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel

$22.00
A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel by Rock, Judith

A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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In her historic mysteries The Rhetoric of Death and The Eloquence of Blood, Judith Rock created an atmosphere that "takes you back to fascinating and dangerous seventeenth-century Paris so well that I suspect her of being a time-traveler who's been there" (Ariana Franklin, national bestselling author of A Murderous Procession). Now, the latest novel to feature Charles du Luc finds the ex-soldier-turned-Jesuit caught up in royal intrigue...

Versailles, 1687

Madame de Maintenon is King Louis XIV's second wife. The daughter of a minor noble of ill-repute, she has not forgiven the king's Jesuit confessor for encouraging him to withhold the title of Queen from her. To placate her, the prestigious Louis le Grand Jesuit school has sent a delegation--including her distant cousin Pere Jouvancy and rhetoric teacher Charles du Luc--to Versailles with a gift of reliquary.

But while the Sun King's palace might be spectacular, this visit is anything but pleasant. Their first night, a courtier dies, and court whispers claim poison. Then the Jesuit delegation falls direly ill, and a palace gardener is found murdered. Fear grips a court already on edge. In the midst of all this, Charles learns that one of his students is in love with the king's rebellious (and betrothed) daughter, and may ruin not only himself, but all of them ...

Author: Judith Rock
ISBN-10: 0425253104
ISBN-13: 9780425253106
Publisher: Berkley Books
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/13/2012 pg. 44
By Judith Rock
By Judith Rock
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For many years a modern dancer and choreographer, Judith Rock founded Body and Soul Dance Company in Berkeley, California, toured extensively as a solo concert dancer, and studied baroque dance. Research for her Ph.D. in art and theology took her to Paris, where she lived at the nearby Jesuit Cultural Center and researched the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ballets produced at the Paris Jesuit College of Louis le Grand.

In a startling leap, Rock then spent several years as a police officer before taking that experience back to the stage as a playwright and actress. She was an auxiliary officer in the NYPD, and later a part-time police officer in Minnesota, working midnight shifts.

Rock has written on dance, art, and theology for many journals, and has been artist-in-residence and taught and lectured at colleges, seminaries and conferences across the United States and abroad. The Rhetoric of Death, her first novel, was a 2011 Barry Award nominee.

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