The Concord Stone by Joe Sanz (.ePUB)
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The Concord Stone: A Jessica Brennan Thriller by Joe Sanz (Jessica Brennan Thrillers Book 1)
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Overview: A murdered stone carver. A message cut in Latin. Seventy-two hours to read the truth the nation’s capital was built on.
At midnight, inside the locked Washington Monument, master stone carver Ugo Ferri dies among the memorial stones he spent his life restoring. His last acts are to cut a message into the marble and to call one woman.
Dr. Jessica Brennan reads stone for a living. A Latin epigrapher who has built a career exposing forgeries, she arrives to find the police waiting, the FBI taking over, and the evidence pointing straight at her.
The trail begins with a theft that really happened. In 1854, a block of marble sent by Pope Pius IX from the ruins of Rome’s Temple of Concord vanished from the Monument grounds and was never seen again. Someone wants what it was guarding badly enough to kill for it.
With Tommaso Ricciardelli, an Italian art-crime officer who blames himself for Ugo’s death, Jessica follows a chain of inscriptions from the 1791 boundary stones of Northern Virginia to L’Enfant’s tomb at Arlington, the tunnels beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill, and the underground vaults of the Vatican. Behind them comes a killer who can carve a lie into stone so perfectly that only she can tell. Ahead lies a deadline at midnight on Wednesday, in a federal courtroom across the river.
The secret buried in 1854 could redraw the map of Washington itself. And the people hunting it have spent 170 years making sure they’ll be holding the levers when it surfaces.
Real places. Real history. A conspiracy older than the Civil War.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Crime
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