An overcast, rainy night in Cologne. A
neighborhood is wrenched suddenly from its sleep by piercing screams. As residents
rush down to the street, they catch only the merest glimpse of a figure in a billowing cloak hastening from the scene. The master cloth-maker is about to set off in hot pursuit when he finds on the ground a book, a pair of sleeves, shoes, a shirt and hose; and the body of Frederico Casall, a Master of the Seven Liberal Arts and an impassioned champion of the teachings of Thomas Aquinas.
The Chancellor of the newly-founded university charges Konrad Steiner, another of the Masters in the Arts faculty, with the investigation of the crime. Who is behind it? Is the murderer a member of the faculty, an opponent of the philosophical tendency represented by Casall? Or is there any basis for the rumor that Casall's young and well-read wife, Sophie, might have had good
reason to rid herself of him? Steiner finds himself confronted with a riddle that is
more than philosophical when, shortly afterwards, Sophie vanishes without a
trace...
Translated from the German by Helen Atkins.
About the Author
 CLAUDIA GROSS was born in 1956 in Arolsen in Hesse, Germany. She studied medieval
philosophy and German. She now lives and works in Kempen on the Lower Rhine.
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The Critics Praise:
"This book will keep you from falling asleep at night. Guaranteed. An impressive summer read."
BILD
"Each and every character is convincing...The precise description of everyday life at a university, which is in the middle of a fight between artists, realists and philosophers, is very fascinating.... Murder and philosophical controversy are intertwined in a dense web which keeps the reader trapped for a long time."
NORDBAYERISCHER KURIER
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