Asensi, Matilde

Everything Under the Sky

Harper:
New York: 2008
First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket,
387 pp
Cover artwork by: Jarrod Taylor

From the author of THE LAST CATO. “After receiving word of her husband's death, Spanish painter Elvira De Poulain travels to Shanghai to claim his body and put his affairs in order. Prim and straitlaced, Elvira feels out of place in this exotic city teeming with unfamiliar sights, sounds, and smells. She longs to return home to Paris as soon as possible. Her charming but dissolute spouse has left her with massive debts, thanks to his fondness for gambling, prostitutes, and opium, and she has no idea how she will repay the enormous sum. As it turns out, her ailing husband did own something of extraordinary value, and was mysteriously killed by thugs who wanted it for themselves: a beautifully crafted box that holds clues to the location of the remains of China's First Emperor—and the unimaginable riches buried alongside him.” Our heroine sets out to find the ancient site with assassins in pursuit. A historical thriller.   #39662