Nonna Maria, one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created (Tess Gerritsen), sets out to clear her goddaughter\'s name and uncover the checkered past of an unidentifiable victim in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra.
But why did she return, and more important, who killed her? Like the links of a beautiful, missing necklace, it\'s up to Nonna Maria to string together the clues and solve these two mysteries before death comes to Ischia again..
It turns out that this woman has a history on the island, having left Ischia decades ago.
The one potential suspect is a young friend of Nonna Maria\'s who drove by the area that very night and thinks that he might have hit something--a pothole, or an animal, or maybe the woman in question.
She has no purse, no identification.
The woman is not known to anyone on the island.
Nearby, the body of a woman is found on a curved road near the borough of Barano.
She takes the heat, but privately she proclaims her innocence.
She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect--a young woman who turns out to be Nonna Maria\'s goddaughter.
The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades.
A wealthy woman alleges that a valuable Necklace has been Stolen from her hotel room.
Two crimes have rocked the sun-drenched island of Ischia, and once again, the island\'s denizens have called upon the espresso-brewing, sage-counsel-giving sleuth.
Nonna Maria has a lot on her plate--and it\'s not just fresh pasta.
Nonna Maria, one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created (Tess Gerritsen), sets out to clear her goddaughter\'s name and uncover the checkered past of an unidentifiable victim in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra
