I needed a devout villain — two devout villains, actually — for my new crime novel, The Inquisitor's Key.
The
novel is set in Avignon, France, where a series of French popes reigned
for most of the 1300s. The plot includes two crimes, a medieval
murder and a modern one, so I needed two killers. And because the book
warns about the match-meets-gasoline perils of mixing religion with
politics, both bad guys had to be fueled by a high-octane mixture of
faithfulness and ruthlessness.
Want to know why the villains of The Inquisitor's Key could justly be called the doppelgangers of real men of the past and present? Continue reading this article over at the Tampa Bay Times to solve the mystery.
