The day is 9.9.1.0.18 4 Etz’nab’ in the great Maya city of Palenque, and in a luxurious mountain villa a man lies dying.
Taah Tiwoh had been feared and disliked in life, and was almost entirely unlamented in death. Many had prayed for him to meet an untimely end, but had someone taken matters into their own hands?
Having failed to save him, his doctor, the Royal Physician Lady Tz’unun, is determined to find out how he died. Her honour, her reputation and possibly her life will depend on her ability to track down the poisoner who successfully defeated her most sophisticated cures. However, danger lurks among the fog-shrouded mansions of the city’s elites, and the more Tz’unun investigates, the more she realises that almost everyone involved would prefer for Taah Tiwoh’s death to remain a mystery. As she and her assistants work to eliminate suspects from her list before the terrifying city magistrates can take over the case, the lies and deceptions of the high aristocracy are thrown open to the light of day. In such uncertain times, no one is above suspicion, and the good doctor is not without secrets of her own…
A Star in the Sky is a magical murder mystery set among the glories of classical Maya civilisation.