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Praise for One for Sorrow... "An enticing picture of sixth-century
Byzantium...and the traffic in holy artifacts [in] the early
history of Christianity." -Publishers Weekly In Byzantium, the
capital of the 6th century Roman Empire, annual games are held to
celebrate the founding of the city. Several courtiers, obliged by
office to attend, idly watch the chariot races and the bear baiting
from the imperial box. Suddenly they--and the crowd-are electrified
as a magnificent bull surges into the arena. Those who worship
Mithra make quiet reverance to the sacred animal while a trio of
bull leapers enters in his wake. John, Lord Chamberlain to the
Christian Emperor, is among those surprised into breathing tribute.
He soon receives a further shock: surely the lovely young girl
vaulting the beast had once been his lover. Later, making his way
home through the thronged streets, John stumbles over the body of
his friend Leukos, Keeper of the Plate. There are plenty of
witnesses: an Egyptian brothel keeper, a young mason working on the
Church of the Holy Wisdom, a mad stylite, a henpecked innkeeper,
and the bull leapers from Crete. Now duty and guilt demand that
John discover the murderer.... The husband and wife team of Mary
Reed and Eric Mayer published One for Sorrow, their first
full-length novel featuring John, Lord Chamberlain to Emperor
Justinian, in 1999. The series has since received much praise and
several awards, including the Arizona Book Award, the IPPY Best
Mystery Award, and the Bruce Alexander History Mystery Award.
home.earthlink.net/~maywrite
Ambition, intrigue, treachery, murder-another Byzantine mystery...
548 CE, Constantinople. The emperor Justinian, distraught from the
death of his wife Theodora, has exiled John, the Lord Chamberlain.
Soon after, an Egyptian magician tries to raise the empress from
the dead. The unholy ceremony goes awry, and in the aftermath,
supposed demons vanish into the night along with one of the city's
holiest relics. Felix, Captain of the Palace Guard, is selected as
John's successor and charged with recovering the artifact. But it
seems as if half the city wants to possess the relic, see Felix
dead-or both. Worse still, Felix's friend, the shrewd John, has
already sailed for Greece. Now Felix enters a fight for his very
survival, a crucible in which he cannot cannot tell friend from
foe-or worldly dangers from the supernatural. The husband and wife
team of Mary Reed and Eric Mayer co-author the award-winning John,
Lord Chamberlain, historical mysteries set in 6th century
Byzantium. http: //home.earthlink.net/ maywrite/
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