The Devils Of Cardona Matthew Carr by Matthew Carr 9781101982754, 9781101982730, 9782016006818, 2016006811, 1101982756, 110198273X instant download after payment.

In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim terrorist as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians.
In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a violent backlash on the eve of a royal visit, an adviser to King Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to investigate. A soldier and bibliophile, Mendoza doesn't always live up to the moral standards expected of court officials, but he has a reputation for incorruptibility.
From the beginning, Mendoza finds almost universal hatred for the priest. And it isn't long before he's drawn into a complex and dangerous world in which greed, fanaticism, and state policy overlap. And as more murders occur, Mendoza's...