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020			_a9781101982730
082	1		_aFIC CAR _2
100	1		_aCarr, Matthew
245	1	0	_aThe devils of Cardona _c/ Matthew Carr.
260			_aNew York _b: Riverhead Books _c, 2016
300			_a401 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aIn this historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a violent backlash on the eve of a royal visit, an adviser to King Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to investigate. A soldier and humanist, Mendoza doesn't always live up to the moral standards expected of court officials, but he has a reputation for incorruptibility. From the beginning, Mendoza finds almost universal hatred for the priest. And it isn't long before he's drawn into a complex and dangerous world in which greed, fanaticism, and state policy overlap. And as the killings continue, Mendoza's investigation is overshadowed by the real prospect of an ethnic and religious civil war.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aClergy _x-Crimes against _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMurder _x-Investigations _v--Fiction
650		4	_aInquisition _z-Spain _v-- Fiction.
651		4	_aSpain _x-Church history _y-16th century _v-- Fiction.
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
655		4	_aDetective and mystery stories _x-Fiction
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