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A servant to men for all her life, Mary Mackenzie is brought to Rome by her latest employer, the elderly Mr Carstairs, for reasons she knows only too well.
In the Babington Tea Rooms she's introduced to the history of a painting that gives her pause for thought, however. Judith and Holofernes. The Holy Ferns, as she hears them.
The story of one woman's bloody battle against a tyrannical man. Is there a lesson there the weak and submissive Mary can learn?
In this dark and blackly humorous short story David Hewson explores another side to the Rome he's chronicled in his bestselling Nic Costa series.
There are no Roman cops in this short story. But there is a side to Rome that Hewson fans will recognise... and a worm that is about to turn.
In the Babington Tea Rooms she's introduced to the history of a painting that gives her pause for thought, however. Judith and Holofernes. The Holy Ferns, as she hears them.
The story of one woman's bloody battle against a tyrannical man. Is there a lesson there the weak and submissive Mary can learn?
In this dark and blackly humorous short story David Hewson explores another side to the Rome he's chronicled in his bestselling Nic Costa series.
There are no Roman cops in this short story. But there is a side to Rome that Hewson fans will recognise... and a worm that is about to turn.
