The Bishop's Dance

Toni Cor was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in the Rocky Mountain area. Even as a child she was fascinated by medieval literature and culture. She also loved detective stories and in recent years has been particularly interested in historical mysteries. After receiving a degree in French from the University of Wyoming, where her father taught French and Spanish, she went on to study at the University of Oregon where she received a master’s degree in Medieval French Literature with a minor in Comparative Literature. Eventually she received a Ph.D. in Medieval French Literature, again with a minor in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught French at various levels and has published some papers on French literature in professional journals. While editing her father’s papers after his death, she came across a wealth of material on a subject that had fascinated her father: King Pedro I of Portugal, called by some Pedro the Cruel. Some of the stories told about him struck her as having the potential of being turned into historical mysteries. So she decided to write them. At the present time Ms. Cor lives with her husband in the Washington D.C. area where she spends entirely too much time playing Angry Birds.