Cezanne's QuarryCezanne's Quarry
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Book, 2008
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Current format, Book, 2008, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsIn this richly atmospheric novel, a mysterious young woman named Solange Vernet arrives in Aix-en-Provence with her lover, a Darwinian scholar named Charles Westbury, and a year later is found strangled in a quarry outside the city. The young and inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, finds his investigation caught in the crossfires of a raging cultural debate.
Initially assuming that Solange's murder was a simple crime de passion by either a jealous Cezanne or a betrayed Westbury, Bernard soon finds himself on a mission to unravel the secrets of Solange and Cezanne's hidden past - the key to which may be a series of his paintings which depicts the strangulation and violation of a woman with golden-red hair.
Exploring questions of science and religion that persist even to this day, Cezanne's Quarry is a provocative debut mystery about life, death, love, and art.
Investigating the strangling murder of a mysterious young woman in Aix-en-Provence, inexperienced magistrate Bernard Martin finds the case hampered by local beliefs that the woman deserved her fate because of her relationship with a radical Darwinian scholar.
Initially assuming that Solange's murder was a simple crime de passion by either a jealous Cezanne or a betrayed Westbury, Bernard soon finds himself on a mission to unravel the secrets of Solange and Cezanne's hidden past - the key to which may be a series of his paintings which depicts the strangulation and violation of a woman with golden-red hair.
Exploring questions of science and religion that persist even to this day, Cezanne's Quarry is a provocative debut mystery about life, death, love, and art.
Investigating the strangling murder of a mysterious young woman in Aix-en-Provence, inexperienced magistrate Bernard Martin finds the case hampered by local beliefs that the woman deserved her fate because of her relationship with a radical Darwinian scholar.
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