Carnival of Lies by D V Bishop (Pan Macmillan, 2025)
Historical Fiction
D.V. Bishops’ Carnival of Lies (ISBN: 9781035041947), which is the latest book in the Cesare Aldo series. Set in the winter of 1539, Aldo learns of plans to assassinate the ruler of Florence, Duke Cosimo de Medici. The plotters have also managed to steal the duke’s journal, which is full of dangerous secrets. Aldo must hunt down those responsible, but the trail leads him to Venice: a city full of lies and enemies; the one place Aldo has sworn to never return.