Book - The Anatomist's Library - Brekke, Jørgen

Condition of the item: Good used

Note on the article: yellowed, dustjacket worn, SHIPPING OF BOOKS, sometimes it could arrive after the indicated term

Author: Brekke, Jørgen

Brand: NARRATIVA NORTH

Number of pages: 367

Details: Bergen, Norway, 1528. The friar swore he would never set foot in that cursed land again: the land of his childhood, the land of his suffering. But that's where the highly prized knives that he has been looking for for years are found, the tools that allowed his teacher, Alessandro, to become the most famous anatomist of the time. To help him achieve such glory, the friar had to pay a very high price. And now the time has come for revenge. Richmond, Virginia, today. Efrahim Bond, the curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, has just made a sensational discovery, which could turn his career around. But the documents relating to that text arrived from Norway will be the last thing he will see before being silenced forever. Trondheim, Norway, today. This is the second time Jon Vatten has been suspected of murder. Five years ago, thanks to an iron alibi, he managed to prove that he was not responsible for the death of his wife and son. But now it's different. Because the victim is a colleague of his, the librarian Gunn Brita Dahle, and he was the last to see her alive and the first to discover the body. But Vatten could never have committed that crime: the woman, in fact, was killed following a particular method, a method described in an enigmatic 16th-century manuscript, the Book of Johannes, which has now mysteriously disappeared...

EAN: 9788842918868

Release date: 2012-03-29