Grace Brophy
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Commissario Cenni investigations volume 2
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In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is bewildering. That is, until Insp. 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 an African female lover in residence.
To complicate things further, the dead woman grew up in occupied Venice, and one of her secrets from World...
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Rita Minelli grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian woman who married a GI at the end of World War II. After her mother's death, Rita decides to quit her job and show up at the home of her aristocratic but cash-strapped relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It is a while before they realize-to their chagrin-that Rita has come to stay. But when the family assembles to watch the penitents' procession in the town...