Tania Bayard
Tania Bayard is a freelance writer specializing in medieval art, culture, and horticulture. She has a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University, and she has taught at several universities. She has also been the assistant horticulturist at The Cloisters, a museum of medieval art that is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the curator of the Biblical Garden at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. Her publications include a study of the thirteenth century sculpture of Bourges Cathedral; books and articles on medieval plants and gardens; a translation of a fourteenth-century housekeeping manual; and two books on roses, co-authored with the rosarian at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She is now working on a series of mystery novels set in 14th century France. The first two books in the series, "In the Presence of Evil" and "In the Shadow of the Enemy," were published in 2018.
Works
In the Shadow of the Enemy
A masquerade ball at the palace ended in tragedy, with four revelers burned to death. Was it an accident . . . or did someone deliberately hurl a flaming torch at the dancers? Convinced it was an act of murder and that the king himself was the real target, Queen Isabeau has asked Christine de Pizan to spend time at court in an attempt to uncover the identity of the would-be assassin.
With the king struck down by an illness no one can understand, Christine finds the palace to be a hotbed of rumor, suspicion, petty rivalries, and dark secrets: a place where no one can be trusted. Could the king's ambitious brother, the Duke of Orléans, be responsible for the deaths? One of his embittered uncles? Or could the killer lie even closer to home?
In the Presence of Evil
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Location
New York, NY
Category
Mystery & Crime, General Non-Fiction
agent Contact
Josh Getzler
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