Chris Bohjalian (Get this book)Best-selling and versatile novelist Bohjalian returns to crime fiction in his fifteenth novel. In Florence in 1955, Francesca Rosatistill beautiful and aloof, though grieving for her husband and childrenis murdered, her heart wrenched from her body. A serial killer is at work, preying on the Rosati family. Mastering matters subtle and grotesque, Bohjalian combines intricate plotting and bewitching sensuality with historical insight and a profound sense of place to create an exceptional work of suspense rooted in the tragic aberrations of war.--Booklist
