Der Ring des Lombarden

Cologne in the Middle Ages – exciting, diverse, and dangerous. An extremely thrilling and well-researched novel about a strong woman and dirty money dealings in the 15th century. Cologne, 1423. The death of her husband, the Lombard Nicolai Golatti, has made Aleydis de Bruinker a very young and very wealthy widow. And a woman with many enemies: competitors who slander her as incompetent to run the inherited exchange office. Allegedly honorable men who want access to her ward's dowry. And an invisible threat from the shadow world, the web of intrigue and blackmail that her husband wove during his lifetime. When an arson attack on Nicolai's murderer shakes the city, Aleydis must do something that she is very uncomfortable with: ask the violent judge Vinzenz van Cleve for help, the man who already occupies too much space in her thoughts. Following "The Gold of the Lombard," this is the second standalone novel about the Lombard widow Aleydis de Bruinker.