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Painted in Blood

(2020)
(The Sleeping Nymph)
(The second book in the Teresa Battaglia series)
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A 2021 Sue Grafton Memorial Award Nominee

In the highly anticipated follow-up to
Flowers Over the Inferno, Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, expert criminal profiler with four decades of experience on the Italian police force, returns for a chilling cold case.

A decades-old murder investigation has landed on Superintendent Teresa Battaglia's desk. DNA analysis has revealed that a painting from the final days of World War II contains matter from a human heart. Teresa is able to trace the evidence to Val Resia, one of Italy’s most isolated, untouched regions.

When Teresa’s investigation hits too close to the truth, a fresh human heart is hung at the valley’s entrance, a warning not to cross its threshold. As she hunts a ruthless killer, Teresa must face down her own rapidly deteriorating physical and cognitive abilities, as well as someone she hoped never to see again—a man who has just become her supervisor.


Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"With a heroine unlike any other and hopefully crafted sense of place. Tuti's gorgeous prose paints a compelling portrait of a small Alpine town's secret." - Karen Dionne


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