The Eighth Veil (Jerusalem Mysteries, 1) - Softcover

Ramsay, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967759064 ISBN 13: 9780967759067

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2012

Synopsis

It is 28 CE, the time of the feast of Tabernacles. A servant girl is found in the baths of the palace of King Herod Antipas, her throat cut. Jerusalem is buzzing over the brutal death of a prophet, John, known familiarly as the Baptizer, and Prefect Pontius Pilate wants no more trouble. So he coerces Gamaliel, the chief rabbi and head of the Sanhedrin, into investigating the girl's death. Gamaliel is a Talmudic scholar, not a sleuth. But as he learns more of the dead girl's background and that of some key suspects, he begins to fit the evidence together. The entwined histories of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Herod the Great, Anthony, and Augustus Caesar suddenly gain relevance to affairs in Jerusalem. And all the while, an itinerant rabbi from Nazareth with his ragged band of enthusiasts and his habit of annoying Caiaphas, the High Priest, moves enigmatically in the background....

About this title

About the Author

Frederick Ramsay has published fourteen books that range from historicals (The Jerusalem Mysteries), to Africa (The Botswana Mysteries), to police procedurals (The Ike Schwartz Mysteries). In addition, his stand-alone Impulse was named one of the Best 100 Books of the Year in 2006 by Publishers Weekly. He is an iconographer and an accomplished public speaker. He lives and writes in Arizona.

Review

"Lures us into the Roman Empire of New Testament times." (Ken Kuhlken, author of the California Century mysteries)

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0967759064
• ISBN 13: 9780967759067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416