Mysterious figure
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Mysterious figure
The Monk's Shadow and a Bloody Secret
During a summer stay at his wife's parents' fortress in Panská Lhota, Jiří Adam of Dobronín finds himself embroiled in a mystery when the local priest, Ignác, is murdered in the ruins of the nearby Rokštejn Castle. But that's not all – a mysterious figure of a monk appears at the castle at night. Is he the murderer?
Jiří Adam takes on the case, but soon discovers that things are much more complicated than they first appear. Especially when another murder occurs…
Vlastimil Vondruška
After graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, he worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the National Museum. During this time, he published more than fifty scientific studies on the history of material culture and several specialised books. He currently lives near Bezděz and is dedicated exclusively to literature and historical journalism. To date, he has published roughly eighty historical novels and detective stories, four books for young people, and, with his wife Alena, two dozen popular science books. Several of his titles have been published abroad. According to the National Library's statistics, he has been the most-read Czech author in Czech libraries in recent years, having sold 2 million printed books and over 100,000 audiobooks. He has won a number of literary awards (e.g. the IBBY Prize, the ÚČS Prize, an Honorary Award from Mensa, and Readers' Choice Awards from MOBA publishing house). His novel, The Hussite Epic, was named Bestseller of the Year in 2015. He received the Krameria Prize, awarded by the Association of Independent Media, for his journalism. In 2017, he received a state award for literature.
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