Renaissance WITCH-HUNT
The Book of Eve by Meg Clothier, Hachette
It is the Fat Tuesday Night Feast and the refectory at the convent is ablaze with candles. The upstanding guests arrive in carriages plump with cushions from their fine palazzos to make merry before the Forty Day Fast. Sister Librarian Beatrice is late. There has been a scuffle as two blood-soaked women seek refuge and are taken to the