The Name of the Rose (Novel)

The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his sensitive mission is overshadowed by seven strange deaths, Brother William becomes a detective. His tools are Aristotle's logic, Aquinas' theology, and Roger Bacon's empirical findings, all polished to a gleaming edge by caustic humour and insatiable inquiry. He gathers evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded documents, and investigates the abbey's uncanny labyrinth, where "the most exciting things happen at night."

“Like the labyrinthine library at its heart, this brilliant novel has many cunning passages and secret chambers . . . Fascinating . . . ingenious . . . dazzling.”