The French Executioner
CC Humphreys
Jean Rombaud was the real-life executioner who beheaded Anne Boleyn—kindly brought over from France by Henry VIII to spare his wife unnecessary pain. In this irresistible historical adventure he is given the fictional treatment as he swears a vow to the ill-fated queen to bury her six-fingered hand—symbol of her rumoured witchery—at a sacred crossroads in France. But Europe is ravaged by religious war, and the hand of this feared, fabled, Protestant queen is so powerful a relic that another man will kill for it.
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- 2002
- ISBN-13
- 9780752846392
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Historical adventureReligious conflictQuest for a sacred relic
Awards
- CWA Ian Fleming Steel DaggerShortlisted(2002)
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