Inspector Felse's college-age son, Dominic, is spending his first summer abroad and has fallen in love with Tossa, a woman who appears to be arranging their travel itinerary for her own inscrutable purposes.
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"The first novel in which Dominic Felse features without his father, if I remember correctly! Also the one in which Dominic meets Tossa, and a fine spy-type mystery even aside from all that!"
— Polly (4 out of 5 stars)
“Peters makes the most of the near Transylvanian terrain and temperament for suspense and odd characters.”
— Kirkus Reviews" From the author of the Brother Cadfael books comes a different era, the 1960's. I enjoyed it! "
— Elizabeth, 9/20/2013" First Ellis Peters book I ever read--in High School--got me hooked for life. "
— Jayne, 8/2/2013" Good mystery series. Read in order. I would read them if I had nothing else to read. "
— Jane, 5/25/2013" This was my first Ellis Peters novel (pen name for Edith Pargeter). There are many, many more mysteries penned by British authors better than this particular one. With the storyline based mostly in Slovakia, at least I now know what a fujara is. "
— F, 3/15/2012" I think this was the first Inspector Felse novel I read, and I was hooked. Peters writes beautifully and her character and plot development are superb. "
— Maribeth, 4/20/2011" From the author of the Brother Cadfael books comes a different era, the 1960's. I enjoyed it! "
— Elizabeth, 4/10/2011" First Ellis Peters book I ever read--in High School--got me hooked for life. "
— Jayne, 1/1/2011" I think this was the first Inspector Felse novel I read, and I was hooked. Peters writes beautifully and her character and plot development are superb. "
— Maribeth, 11/19/2010" This was my first Ellis Peters novel (pen name for Edith Pargeter). There are many, many more mysteries penned by British authors better than this particular one. With the storyline based mostly in Slovakia, at least I now know what a fujara is. "
— F, 9/8/2010" Good mystery series. Read in order. I would read them if I had nothing else to read. "
— Jane, 7/6/2008Ellis Peters (1913–1995) was the pen name of English novelist Edith Pargeter, author of scores of books under her own name. She was a recipient of the Silver Dagger Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, conferred by the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain, as well as the coveted Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America.
Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.