The Dead Season

About the author

CHRISTOBEL KENT'S books include A Time of Mourning, A Party in San Niccolo, Late Season and A Florentine Revenge. She lives near Cambridge with her husband and five children.

Summary

Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat. But this year the heatwave is fiercer than usual, and the city's inhabitants have fled to the cool of the hills and beaches of the surrounding countryside. So it is no surprise that amidst the shrubbery of a normally busy roundabout, a corpse lies unnoticed, bloating in the humid air.

Sandro Cellini will not be joining the crowds of holidaymakers this year. The former policeman turned private detective has a case: a man who seems to have vanished into thin air - leaving his pregnant young wife alone
in the city. Meanwhile, bankteller Roxana Delfino is also stuck in the city for the season, with nothing to do but worry for her aging mother and puzzle over the disappearance of one her regular clients.

As all Florence sweats it out, Cellini attempts as best he can to grapple with his case and the complications it throws up. And when the weather finally breaks, it brings with it a shocking revelation...

Foreword

A NEW SANDRO CELLINI MYSTERY - 'Brooding Italian noir' Independent on Sunday

Florence is deserted. The sluggish Arno and the Ponte Vecchio shimmer in the summer haze. A corpse lies on the roadside, waiting for discovery...

Product details

• Authors: Christobel Kent, Christobel (Author) Kent, Kent Christobel
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9781843549529
• ISBN: 978-1-84354-952-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 37 mm
• Weight: 721 g
• Series: Sandro Cellini; Sandro Cellini
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense