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In 14th-century Italy, Mondino is a university anatomist - a man of science in a land governed by the brutal Inquisition. But the corpse brought to Mondino's laboratory one stormy night defies natural law: The victim is a Templar knight, and his heart has been transformed into a block of iron. Is it alchemy? Or the diabolical work of an ingenious killer? Aided by his headstrong student Gerardo - a young man concealing a deadly secret identity - Mondino must outwit both ruthless Inquisitors and vengeful Templars if he's to stop a murderer whose methods don't just freeze the blood . . . but turn it to stone. Alfredo Colitto was born in Campobasso, studied in Bologna and was living in Mexico when he wrote his first novel. He has since written several other novels and numerous short stories. He works as editor and translator with some of the major Italian publishing houses, writes for film and television, and teaches creative writing at the School of Bologna.