Judith Rock

Charles du Luc

1 - The Rhetoric of Death (Oct-2010)
2 - The Eloquence of Blood (Sep-2011)
2.5 - Pernelle's Escape (Sep-2012)
3 - A Plague of Lies (Oct-2012)
4 - The Whispering of Bones (Nov-2013)

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  The Rhetoric of Death
  

  • Oct-2010
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Charles du Luc - 1
  

  The Bishop of Marseilles has discovered his horror that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping heretics (that is, Protestants) escape the king's dragoons. But rather than drag his reckless cousin to ...

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  The Eloquence of Blood
  

  • Sep-2011
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Charles du Luc - 2
  

  Christmas in Paris, 1686. The spirit of the season is shattered when Martine Mynette is murdered while trying to prove that she is the adopted daughter of the last surviving Mynette heir and thus claim her inheritance-money that the family otherwise ...

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  Pernelle's Escape
  

  • Sep-2012
  • / Historical
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  Charles du Luc - 2.5
  

  Judith Rock, the author of the "powerful, absorbing, and complex" historical mysteries featuring ex-soldier turned priest Charles du Luc, presents an original novella about the love of his young life... Pernelle du Luc Bayle is a widow with a youn...

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  A Plague of Lies
  

  • Oct-2012
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Charles du Luc - 3
  

  In her historic mysteries The Rhetoric of Death and The Eloquence of Blood, Judith Rock created an atmosphere that "takes you back to fascinating and dangerous seventeenth-century Paris so well that I suspect her of being a time-traveler who's been t...

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  The Whispering of Bones
  

  • Nov-2013
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Charles du Luc - 4
  

  Paris, 1687. The last thing Jesuit Charles du Luc and his elderly confessor expect to find in an ancient crypt is a newly murdered body. Even more troubling, the shock of discovering the victim -- a young man about to enter their order -- proves too...

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