The Eighth Veil

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Praise for Frederick Ramsay's Jerusalem Mysteries... "If there's any complaint to be made about the book, it's that it's too short." -Booklist of Judas It's 28 CE. A servant girl is found in the baths of the palace of King Herod Antipas, her throat cut. Jerusalem is abuzz over the death of John the Baptizer, and Prefect Pontius Pilate wants no more trouble. So he coerces Gamaliel, chief rabbi and head of the Sanhedrin, into investigating the death. Gamaliel is a Talmudic scholar, not a sleuth. But he soon begins to fit the evidence together. The entwined histories of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Herod the Great, Anthony, and Augustus Caesar suddenly gain relevance. And all the while, an itinerant rabbi from Nazareth moves in the background.... Frederick Ramsay is a retired Episcopal priest, academic, and now author who lives in Arizona with his wife of thirty years, Susan. www.frederickramsay.com

Frederick Ramsay has published fourteen books that range from historicals (The Jerusalem Mysteries), to Africa (The Botswana Mysteries), to police procedurals (The Ike Schwartz Mysteries). In addition, his stand-alone Impulse was named one of the Best 100 Books of the Year in 2006 by Publishers Weekly. He is an iconographer and an accomplished public speaker. He lives and writes in Arizona.

"Lures us into the Roman Empire of New Testament times." * Ken Kuhlken, author of the California Century mysteries *