"Life was never black and white in Italy... Something about the place both disturbed and interested him. Venice reminded him of a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go."
As their exile in Venice draws to a close, Roman detectives Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni are ordered to investigate an apparently open-and-shut case, a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives, so all they want is to wrap it up quickly.
However, as they dig more deeply into the insular glass-making community on Murano and the strange Arcangeli family, things don't quite add up. With increasing pressure from above to finish quickly, events spiral out of control - with devastating consequences...
David Hewson is a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times. Following A Season for the Dead, The Villa of Mysteries and Sacred Cut, this is the fourth in his Italian crime series featuring Detective Nic Costa. The author lives in Kent.
ISBN:
9780330435949
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/02/2007
Category:
Crime & Mystery
Imprint:
Pan
Pages:
474 page/s
Stock:
Out of print
Price:
$19.95 AUD