A Time of Mourning - Tapa blanda

The dank, gloomy and often sinister backdrop chimes well with the events that unfold... An intelligent and convincing thriller with fleshed-out characters you want to meet again. --Carla McKay, Daily Mail

Taut and thoughtful --Mark Lawson, Guardian

Elaborate and convincing... I gobbled it up - how could one help it? Such a potent sense of place and such gripping events. --Diana Athill

When a young English girl goes missing from among Florence's hard-drinking, high-living community of foreign art students, at first ex-policeman, good husband and newly private detective Sandro Cellini is unwilling to see any connection with his investigation of the suicide of an elderly Jewish architect.But as he looks more closely into the circumstances of Claudio Gentileschi's death the connections between the cases multiply, and Sandro's first case turns out to be darker and more complex than he could have imagined...