AWARD-winning author D. V. Bishop will visit Dunoon this month to discuss the latest instalment in his acclaimed series of historical crime novels.
The New Zealand-born writer will appear at Bookpoint on Tuesday, July 14 at 6pm, where he will talk about his new novel, Shadow of Madness.
The book, the sixth in Bishop’s Cesare Aldo series, has been named a Sunday Times Book of the Month for July.
Set in Renaissance Florence, the series combines historical detail with crime fiction and follows Cesare Aldo, an officer working for the city’s powerful Medici family.
In Shadow of Madness, Aldo and his friend and lover, Jewish doctor Saul Orvieto, travel to the Ospedale de Pazzi, an asylum for the incurably mentally ill in the hills above Florence.
Aldo is searching for clues about his own past but is forced to turn his attention to a murder investigation after a blizzard traps visitors inside the asylum and he witnesses a killing in its courtyard.
As further deaths follow and secrets emerge, Aldo comes to believe someone has returned to the asylum to seek revenge for events that took place many years earlier.
Bishop’s appearance follows a recent visit to Bookpoint by Monk Samak and colleagues from the Meditation Centre of Glasgow.
Tickets for the event cost £5 and are available directly from Bookpoint or through its website.
