Bloody Tears
Bloody tears in Opava
A mysterious death occurs at the court of Duke Nicholas of Opava. The man who was killed has tears of blood in his eyes. Immediately after Nicholas is knighted at Raabs Castle, he returns home accompanied by Oldrich of Chlum and his helpers. They are given the task by the Czech king to solve this mystery as quickly as possible. Nicholas is Přemysl's illegitimate son and the king counts him in his plans. That is why it is necessary to keep the Opava region calm. But the Church has also become interested in the strange death. Wasn't it a martyr's death and wasn't it a miracle? Soon, however, another similar murder occurs. Oldřich of Chlum must unravel complex events whose roots stretch back into the distant past...
Vlastimil Vondruska
He studied history and ethnography at Charles University in Prague, worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and then at the National Museum in Prague. About 50 scientific studies and the first short stories date from that time. For over thirty years he has been a mountaineer. After the revolution in 1989, he founded a glassworks where he produced copies of historical glass. At that time he returned to writing fiction and has been a freelance writer since 2007. To date, he has published some 70 historical novels and detective stories, several children's books and, together with his wife, 20 popular history books. According to statistics from the National Library, he has been the most widely read Czech author for many years, selling nearly two million printed books and over 100,000 audiobooks, and several titles have been published abroad. He is also the author of the screenplay for the film In the Name of the King, as well as a writer of radio and stage plays. He has received numerous literary awards (e.g. the IBBY Award, the Czech Learned Society Award, the Honorary Award of the Mensa, the MOBA Readers' Prize). His novel The Hussite Epic won the Bestseller of the Year title in 2015. He also writes journalism, for which he received the Kramer Prize from the Association of Independent Media. In 2017, he received a state award for literature from President Miloš Zeman.
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