The Villa Triste

It's Florence, 1944. As the Nazi's begin to face defeat, they cling on to their former ally - Italy, raining down oppression and brutal punishment on any who dare defy their increasingly desperate control. Now, as the liberation of the city seems finally within reach, one family - the Camaccios - and their Partisan friends, will risk everything to make a radio broadcast, hoping to pass vital information to the allies. But as the group convenes in a secret location, there is the sound of heavy footsteps on the stairs. They have been betrayed...In modern day Florence, the new Director of Elite Policing - Inspector Pallioti - is called to oversee the investigation into a most shocking crime. A recently decorated Partisan hero has been discovered dead in his apartment, a bullet wound to his head and his mouth stuffed with salt. Later, another former Partisan is found murdered in the same brutal, unnerving way. During the course of the investigation, Pallioti finds the old wartime diary of Caterina Camaccio. Increasingly drawn into Caterina's tale of love, longing, heroism and ultimately treachery, Pallioti gradually discovers the dark secrets in Florence's bloody history and begins to realise that the past really does inform the present. For it is Caterina herself who will lead him to the shocking truth behind these bloody murders...


Genre: Mystery