Cezanne's Quarry

By: Barbara Corrado Pope

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Synopsis: A beautiful young woman is found murdered . . . and the clues to her death point to her spurned lover, Paul Cézanne.In this richly atmospheric novel, a mysterious young woman named Solange Vernet arrives in Aix-en-Provence with her lover, a Darwinian scholar named Charles Westbury, and a year later is found strangled in a quarry outside the city. The young and inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, finds his investigation caught in the crossfires of a raging cultural debate. Initially assuming that Solange&’s murder was a simple crime de passion by either a jealous Cézanne or a betrayed Westbury, Bernard soon finds himself on a mission to unravel the secrets of Solange and Cezanne&’s hidden past. Exploring questions of science and religion that persist even to this day, Cezanne&’s Quarry is a provocative debut mystery about life, death, love, and art.