Praise for Nine for the Devil...
"Treachery and murder linger behind every shadowed column of the imperial palace in Constantinople."
-Robin Burcell, award-winning author of The Bone Chamber

The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead. Emperor Justinian suspects murder and orders John, his Lord Chamberlain, to find her killer or suffer the consequences. Many aristocrats at the imperial court had reason to want Theodora dead. Not even Pope Vigilius, detained in the capital by a religious controversy, is above suspicion.
Meanwhile, John must also grapple with domestic upheavals. His daughter is about to give birth and his aging servant Peter is dying. Can John serve justice, his loved ones, and the emperor?

Mary Reed and Eric Mayer published their first full-length novel featuring John, Lord Chamberlain in 1999. The series has since won praise and multiple awards.
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