Boek
Fans of Donna Leon or Hkan Nesser will be ecstatic to find a kindred spirit inGrace Brophy.BookPageEvocative. . . . Cenni is well set up to returnand traditional mystery readers should welcome his continued investigations.The Baltimore SunA rocksolid debut.Publishers WeeklyCharmaplenty.Kirkus ReviewsSure to please fans of David Hewsons Nic Costaand all readers of Italian mysteries will want to add Umbria to their literaryitineraries.BooklistRita grew up in Brooklyn the only child of anarcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II.After her mothers death she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poorbut aristocratic relatives the Count and Countess Casati in Assisi. It takesa while before they realize to their chagrin that Rita has come to stay. Whenthe family assembles to watch the penitentes procession in the town squareduring Easter Week Rita does not join them as planned. Her corpse is laterfound in the family mausoleum.Alessandro Cenni a commissario in the StatePolice of Umbria must penetrate the secrets of the Casati family and theircircle if he is to discover who killed Rita and why. But he is blocked by theirpowerful rightwing connections and by a superior who prefers to arrest ascapegoat rather than risk political suicide. Aided by a loyal staff in hisquest for that rarityjusticehe still must acknowledge that no one can defeatthe last enemy death itself. «
Boeklezers.nl is een netwerk voor sociaal lezen. Wij helpen lezers nieuwe boeken en schrijvers ontdekken, en brengen lezers met elkaar en schrijvers in contact. Meer lezen »
Er zijn nog geen recensies voor dit boek.