The Villa Triste

Blurb

It is the autumn of 1943. Italy signs the armistice that will take it out of the war, and slides into chaos. In Florence, two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death. Determined to take on not only the Nazis but also the newly resurgent Fascists, bands of Partisans rise up. In the present day, Alessandro Pallioti, one of Florence's most senior policemen, would not normally oversee a murder investigation. He agrees only as a favour to the Mayor, and because the victim was one of the few surviving Partisans. Pallioti finds himself pulled backwards in time, then racing against it, working to uncover a crime lost in the twilight of the war.