Severn House Publishers
October 2015
On Sale: October 1, 2015
Featuring: Julia Wellbeloved; Pino Fratelli
256 pages ISBN: 0727885251 EAN: 9780727885258 Kindle: B0144FPSXU Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A dazzling Italian mystery, rich in intrigue and dark
secrets, from an internationally bestselling crime writer at
the height of his powers.
Florence, 1986. A
seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and
Eve brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved,
an English art student, and Pino Fratelli, a semi-retired
detective who longs to be back in the field. Their
investigation leads them to the secret society that
underpins the city: an elite underworld of excess, violence
and desire.
Seeped in the culture of Tuscany’s most
mysterious city, The Flood takes the reader on a dazzling
journey into the darkness in Florence’s past: the night of
the great flood in 1966 …