Consecration: A Thriller

by Mark Shannon

May, 1182. Paris. Ten days before the consecration of Notre Dame cathedral, a mutilated corpse is discovered in its crypt. Facing the second such murder in as many days, Sergeants Miquel Pedret and Bernard Voiderue must track down the killer. Nothing, however, is at all what it seems. Soon the men find themselves confronting a conspiracy rooted deep in the past and armed with a weapon that will change history. Based on a rigorous foundation of fact, CONSECRATION is sure to delight fans of historical thrillers and crime. Linno Corbin was educated at Dartmouth College, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Columbia University in New York City. For the last 25 years, he has lived and worked in Catalonia. Under other names, he has published a variety of articles and short fiction. His books for children have been favorably reviewed in The New Yorker and The Washington Post among many others, and have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly. In 2019 one of his books was featured in Juggling the Middle Ages, an exhibition at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C. This is his first novel.

307 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 3, 2020