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
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
