City of Silver by Annamaria Alfieri
Potosi is the highest, largest and richest city in the the New World. In 1650 the King of Spain sends the Visitador General and the Grand Inquisitor to investigate the debasing of the silver coin produced in Potosi. Meanwhile the mayor's daughter is found dead in a locked room at the local convent. Despite her possible suicide the Abbess chooses to have her buried in sacred ground. As the Abbess investigates this possible murder there is another death at the convent. These events make the Abbess the chief target of the Grand Inquisitor. The mayor and other nobles of the town fete the Visitador General, while plotting behind his back. Will the Visitador General find and punish the debaser of the king's coinage? Will the Grand Inquisitor find souls to save?
City of Silver works both as a historical novel and as a locked room mystery.
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