The sudden disappearance of the worker bees
By: Serge Quadruppani ; translation from the Italian by Delia Casa
Contributors: Casa, Delia, translator
Series: A Commissario Simona Tavianello mystery
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781611458404
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Bees; Fiction
Description: On vacation with her husband in an idyllic Italian valley, Police Inspector Simona Tavianello stops at the local beekeeper's shop to buy some honey, where she finds a body lying in the entrance. Simona tries to avoid involvement-she is, after all, off-duty. But when she realizes that the murder weapon is her own gun, what can she do but take charge?The victim was an engineer at the controversial agricultural research center for Sacropiano, a biotechnology company accused of developing pesticides that are making the bees in the region disappear. Can Tavianello not only solve the murder, but also discover the reason behind the disappearance of the bees?