New #CesareAldo novel THE DARKEST SIN out 3.3.22

It's official! My second Cesare Aldo novel THE DARKEST SIN is being published March 3rd next year by Pan Macmillan. The cover and title were revealed today, and the book is already Pre-order links for The Darkest Sin.

Had this custom t-shirt made to celebrate and will be wearing it this weekend in Stirling at the Bloody Scotland international crime writing festival.

Here's the official blurb for my book:

The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.

Florence. Spring, 1537.

When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city’s northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets.

His case becomes far more complicated when a naked man’s body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than two dozen times. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests one of the nuns must be the killer.

Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city’s most feared criminal court?

As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth, identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of them could ever have imagined . . .