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Title: Not recommended
Review: I was looking forward to reading this book because I enjoy historical mysteries like Eco's Name of the Rose and Pear's An Instance of the Fingerpost. This book was not successful, however. As history, it was a cartoon. The only bad Jews are the ones who have converted to Christianity and the only good Christians are the ones who, it turns out, are actually Jews. As far as the mystery is concerned, I found it incomprehensible. Having finished the book, I still have only the vaguest notion of who the killer is and no idea at all of the motive.
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