The Phoenix of Florence

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Fifteenth century Italy, deep in the Tuscan countryside, a long-held feud between two aristocratic families breaks the two-decade peace. A family is bloodily ripped
apart, a girl wanders the forest alone, and everything is lost. But things which are lost are not always gone, instead they are sometimes simply hidden from view.
In the middle of Florence, two brutal murders are not all they seem. As Celavini, a soldier turned government law enforcer, begins to investigate, a family heirloom
turns up where it shouldn't, leading him on a journey back to his beginnings.
With an all-but-forgotten saint to guide them, a frightened little girl and a troubled soldier hide in plain sight, praying to find that which they have lost: themselves.

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Selected as the Historical Book of the Month in The Times: `This is a historical crime novel with soul, written with beauty and tenderness.' Antonia Senior, The Times; `A complex narrative of violence, betrayal and the power of traumatic events to shape identity Kazan has written convincingly about Renaissance Italy in earlier books and his vivid vigorous prose brings it to life again. Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times

Author Bio

Philip Kazan was born in London and grew-up on Dartmoor. He is the author of two previous novels set in fifteenth-century Florence and the Petroc series following a thirteenth-century adventurer. After living in New York and Vermont, Philip is back on the edge of Dartmoor with his wife and three children.