The Book of SecretsThe thrilling and unputdownable new novel from bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl, Anna Mazzola! 'Vividly alive with menace, magic, and mystery' ESSIE FOX 'Exceptional. Anna Mazzola's finest work yet' ELODIE HARPER Rome, 1659. Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to

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In The Last Crossing memory is unreliable

out on the tower

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For he has experienced the horrors of World War I and has seen madness at first hand

On September 11th 2005

they struggled for ten years to reach the single figure they sought