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Book Review of A Season for the Dead

A Season for the Dead
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University professor Sara Farnese is at her desk in the Reading Room of the Vatican Library when former lover and fellow university professor Stefano Rinaldi careens into the room dragging a large plastic bag containing "the freshly flayed skin of an adult male" and quotes the Christian theologian, Tertullian ("The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church"). Before she can learn more he is shor to death by a panic stricken Swiss Guard. Then the story begins to get interesting. First of a projected series involving various characters in Rome, this one takes the DaVinci Code sub-genre to an entirely new level.