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Zusatztext Praise for Deadly Paradise Winner of the BookPage "Tip of the Icepick" Award “The likes of Donna Leon! Magdalen Nabb and David Hewson are joined by Grace Brophy! author of an outstanding new series featuring handsome Commissario Alessandro Cenni of the state police.” — The Denver Post “Brophy not only has found in Umbria a fresh setting for Italian crime fiction! but she has also created a character in Cenni! who combines the beguiling personal flaws! slumbering sex appeal! and mysterious detachment of David Hewson’s Leo Falcone and Nic Costa.” — Booklist “Brophy has a fine budding series here! with winning characters and settings that include Venice and Murano as well as Umbria! and the ongoing Chiara subplot will have readers anticipating the next installment.” — Library Journal Praise for Grace Brophy “It’s not often that an author’s first book wins the coveted Tip of the Ice Pick Award.” — BookPage “Believable narrative twists combined with excellent characterization! rich dialogue and a finely depicted setting.” — Publishers Weekly “A terrific Italian historical police procedural.” — Midwest Book Review Informationen zum Autor Born in New Jersey to Irish parents! Grace Brophy lived and worked as a teacher and systems engineer in New York City until 2001! when she and her late husband! figurative painter Miguel Peraza! traveled to Italy with their two cats. While in Italy! she began The Last Enemy ! her first work of fiction. Zusammenfassung The second Commissario Cenni investigation In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso! the murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is bewildering. That is! until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attaché was not only a difficult tenant and a blackmailer! but a bisexual swinger who recently had a female lover in residence. The dead woman grew up in occupied Venice! and one of her secrets from World War II might have surfaced. And the bucolic village is not that innocent: it was the site of a scandalous murder fifty years earlier. Cenni’s boss wants a scapegoat! and the woman’s young former lover is the obvious target! but Cenni cannot bring himself to close the case without bringing the true perpetrator to justice. ...
