Bitter, Amore

The razor-sharp follow-up to the bestsel ling mystery Death Takes a Holiday!

August 1956, and there’s a heatwave in Rome. After a bus journey with murderous complications, crime novel re viewer Florrie Granat has stayed in the city. Here she spends most of her time with her typewriter and a cat, who might possibly be called Bang.

A friend from her student days introduces her to a group of archaeologists, the dynamic rife with rivalries, ambitions and jealousies. Assistant professor Georg Brandt, the Wat son to Florrie’s Sherlock, shows up when the group takes a trip to an Etruscan excavation. Then the scirocco wind picks up, and tormented by the oppressive weather, her new friends get into serious trouble. A violent death befalls them, one the police dismiss as an accident.

But Florrie knows better and sees an opportunity to put her sharp deductive skills to use, but will her bullish and confrontational nature unlock the mystery, or put her in the firing line?

Bitter, Amore is the second detective novel in Carina Burman’s series starring the charismatic Florrie Granat. A delightful nod to the golden age of detective fiction, written by an acclaimed and prize-winning author, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers.