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Cruel Music (Tito Amato #3)
by
Beverle Graves Myers (Goodreads Author)
Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family. Instead he finds his merchant brother Alessandro imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge, a capital crime in 1740 Venice. The senator who controls Alessandro's fate is determined to have a Venetian as the next pope. He forces Tito to Rome to sing at the villa of a powerful, music-loving cardin...more
Hardcover, 303 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by Poisoned Pen Press
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Tito is forced to leave his beloved Venice for Rome. A Venetian nobleman is offering Tito's singing as a bribe for a powerful Cardinal, in an attempt to swing his voting bloc toward a Venetian who is a candidate for next pope. Tito goes - very angrily indeed.
The murder of a pretty servant of the Cardinal turns into a political time bomb. Gemma was entirely too clever for her own good. Tito couldn't handle alone all the pitfalls these problems offer, but a couple of his trusted friend...more
The murder of a pretty servant of the Cardinal turns into a political time bomb. Gemma was entirely too clever for her own good. Tito couldn't handle alone all the pitfalls these problems offer, but a couple of his trusted friend...more
Tito Amato is looking forward to a nice relaxing vacation after a recent tour. Alas, this is not to be. His brother Alessandro is arrested for smuggling salt, a capital crime in Venice. It is, of course, a trumped up charge, meant to make Tito pliable to a venture he would otherwise never consider. Senator Montorio, the State Inquisitor, has a stake in the papal election which will occur just as soon as the current pope, Clement, dies. Montorio wants Tito to spy for him in the villa of Card...more
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CRUEL MUSIC (Historical-Italy-1740) – VG
Myers, Beverle Graves – 3rd in series
Poisoned Pen Press, 2006, US Hardcover – ISBN1590582306
*** Pope Clement XII is dying and Venetian Senator Antonio Montorio is determined that his brother, Cardinal Stefano Montorio be the next Pope. To this end, the Senator has arrested the brother of Venetian castrati Tito Amato as leverage forcing Tito to Rome and into the household of Cardinal Fabiani on whom Tito is to spy and influence Fabiani to...more
Myers, Beverle Graves – 3rd in series
Poisoned Pen Press, 2006, US Hardcover – ISBN1590582306
*** Pope Clement XII is dying and Venetian Senator Antonio Montorio is determined that his brother, Cardinal Stefano Montorio be the next Pope. To this end, the Senator has arrested the brother of Venetian castrati Tito Amato as leverage forcing Tito to Rome and into the household of Cardinal Fabiani on whom Tito is to spy and influence Fabiani to...more
Best of the Baroque Mysteries so far. The murderer was concealed until close to the end and there were several mysteries intertwined. I felt like the supporting characters had more depth, as well. Plus Tito really gets . . . oh, nevermind - wouldn't want to spoil the surprise.
Best yet...Tito is older and wiser and in deep trouble from page one! Romance returns (yay!) as he has to move to Rome to sing to a dying pope and get involved in murder and papal politics. Can't wait for #4 of this wonderful series.
Made me want to read the rest! He's a fascinating character!
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Beverle Graves Myers made a mid-life career switch from psychiatry to full-time writing. A graduate of the University of Louisville with a BA in History and an MD, she worked at a public mental health clinic before her first Tito Amato novel was published in 2004.
Bev also writes short stories set in a variety of times and places. Her stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Ma...more
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Bev also writes short stories set in a variety of times and places. Her stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Ma...more
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