Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. After her mother’s death, she quits her teaching job and descends
In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the shocking murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman, a retired cultural attache, is barely credible. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni o
“Fans of Donna Leon or Hakan Nesser will be ecstatic to find a kindred spirit in Grace Brophy.”—BookPage“Evocative. . . . Cenni is well set up to return, and traditional mystery readers should welcome