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Rick Montoya #4
Poisoned Pen Press
November 2016
On Sale: November 1, 2016
222 pages ISBN: 1464206112 EAN: 9781464206115 Kindle: B01LX1SAHH Trade Size / e-Book
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Mystery
Orvieto - its very name brings to mind priceless art,
colorful ceramics, and straw-colored wine. And the most
famous cathedral façade in Italy, a structure of gothic
spires, arches, statues, and mosaics. But as Rick Montoya
discovers, this jewel of Umbria can have an ugly side as
well.
When Rick Montoya moved to his mother's Italy
from his father's Santa Fe, New Mexico, to work as a
freelance translator using his dual heritage, he didn't
expect to be helping the Italian police. His maternal uncle,
a high-level commissioner in Rome, however, sees no reason
not to use the resources at hand.
Rick's fourth
investigation should not have involved crime. It begins when
Rick is asked by his uncle to go to Orvieto to talk some
sense into his cousin Fabrizio, whose fling with an older
married woman is embarrassing the family. Rick agrees to
give it a try, and plans a short but romantic weekend in
Orvieto with Betta Innocenti, the woman he met in Bassano.
What could go wrong?
Less than a day after their
arrival, his language skills draw him into the brutal murder
of an American visitor. He finds that he knows the policeman
in charge, but Inspector LoGuercio has changed since the
time they met in Volterra. The murdered woman had studied
art in Italy decades earlier - why has she returned now? And
why was she dumped at night on a dusty road? Through her
traveling companions, her devastated daughter and best
friend, as well as a growing list of those who knew her from
her student days, they realize she had come to Orvieto to
face the past. And then a second murder occurs in a public
park, with Montoya so close that he wonders if he could have
been the intended target. Is all this connected to Fabrizio
and his affair, or to the American's death? More violence
erupts, some of it definitely directed at Rick himself.
Rick Montoya
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