The villa triste
By: Lucretia Grindle
Publisher: McArthur & Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9781552789698
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Murder; Police; World War, 1939-1945; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Fiction; Guerrillas; Detective and mystery stories; Investigation; War Underground movements; Underground movements
Description: It is the autumn of 1943. In Florence, two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death; and with Italy trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation, bands of Partisans rise up. Soon Isabella and Caterina will test their wits and deepest beliefs as never before. As the winter grinds on, they will be forced to make the most important decisions of their lives. Their choices will reverberate for decades. In the present day, Alessandro Pallioti, one of Florence's most senior policemen, agrees to oversee a murder investigation, after it emerges the victim was once a Partisan hero.