A good medieval mystery that kept the pages turning.

I loved the Solomon POV. Catherine is great, but the series NEEDS MOAR SOLOMON.

This was a good book at the end of a great series. It`s not a Catherine book, and that`s OK, but I`m less interested in the lives of young men in the middle ages who can act with autonomy and be taken seriously and are oppressed by religion than I am in the lives of a young female scholar and mother using her brains to see through things. I liked the book fine, it just wasn't what I was looking for exactly.

A bit slow going through the middle section but the ending had all the best of Newman`s writing. I`m not sorry to have read it, but if it had come first I doubt that I would have read the rest of the series.

While the usual main characters do not figure in this book, this was still an excellent historical mystery. Set mainly in Southern France with a journey to Spain, I enjoyed all the historical details of the Jewish community in Toulouse and thought the plot was entertaining.

This book didn't feature Catherine at all, switching its attention to Solomon instead.

With this series, I find that the books with the most soul searching are the least interesting and this book fell into that category. While I like the character of Solomon I don't think I needed an entire book about him.
Still, I like the book and I find the Jewish history fascinating.

This series moves all around France and Europe, but the same cast of characters pops up each time. It drives me nuts.