The first thing we see when we look at the cover of a book is the title. A word or a few words to encompass the tens of thousands of words within.
Author Tess Merlin’s newest release refused to accept the limitations of a title, instead demanding fluidity and the opportunity to offer the option of personal interpretation by the reader. As with all of her books, there is a challenge to readers to think about an important issue in our society, wrapped in a page-turning story.
This cross-genre fiction draws on Tess’s experience as a police officer and her life in Italy, to combine crime, mystery, romance and family saga in an intriguing, fast-paced story…
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Recovering from crashing his shiny new bike, young Australian policeman Luca has time on his hands and a festering family secret on his mind. Each time he asks his strict Italian mother for the truth about his father’s death in Italy twenty years ago, she will not speak of it.
Frustrated with her latest refusal, Luca decides to use his investigative skills to go back to where it all happened, to find the answers for himself. What he discovers shocks him to the core and puts him and those he loves in danger—from his own flesh and blood.
Family takes on a whole new meaning and Luca begins to question who he really is, and whether a family’s involvement in crime in Italy necessarily means they’re Mafia.
Readers will be transported to Italy with Luca and thrust headlong into unravelling this dangerous mystery with him.
