Riccardo Bruni

He's finally letting go of the memory of his murdered girlfriend. Then he sees her texts. Alice was a hopeful young graduate student when, on a beautiful August night, her body was found in the woods. She'll always remember the night she was murdered. And she still suffers the grief and rage that destroyed her family. But what Alice regrets most is the last fight she had with her boyfriend, Enrico--and the fact that she never had the chance to tell him something that would have changed everything. A decade later, Enrico has returned to the provincial town where Alice lived and died, to sell his family home. All he wants is to forget. But then, among the things he left behind, he finds an old cell phone...and unread texts sent from Alice's phone. Now, her terrible secrets are about to swallow up everyone she knew, loved, and trusted. For Enrico, discovering them is his only chance to put his lost love--and the demons of his past--to rest.

The Night of the Moths

As winter thaws, secrets emerge in a once-sleepy village in the mountains. Since the death of his father by a drunk driver, Giulio Rodari has touched alcohol only twice--and the second time was the night his ex-girlfriend, Patrizia, was murdered. The morning after, the celebrated children's author awoke to a black hole in his memory--and to accusations of the crime. He had been known to stalk her. He had confronted her in an intoxicated rage on her last night alive. Beyond that, Giulio doesn't remember a thing. To escape the spotlight, he retreats to the small mountain town where he grew up, staying under house arrest at his mother's hotel. Covered in an inescapable pall of winter white, the village is haunted by a local tragedy--a bridge collapse that took seven lives. Now, as long-buried secrets and hidden rivalries emerge, Giulio struggles to separate reality from illusion. As the police investigate, will he be able to fill in the missing pieces of the murder he's accused of?

The Hawthorne Season

Venezia, 1502. Dalle acque del Canal Grande emergono tre cadaveri orrendamente mutilati. Tra la gente si diffondono la paura e la convinzione che un demone sia arrivato a punire i vizi della Serenissima. Nelle stanze del potere il doge, Leonardo Loredan, vacilla e alle sue spalle si sta preparando una congiura per rovesciare la Repubblica e asservirla a Rodrigo Borgia, papa Alessandro VI. Mathias Munster, un monaco tedesco sospeso dall'insegnamento per le sue idee poco gradite agli ambienti ecclesiastici, è incaricato in gran segreto di indagare sugli omicidi. Lo affianca il giovane Lorenzo Scarpa, il nipote di una delle vittime, uno stampatore. La spiegazione di tutto sembra trovarsi nel mondo dell'industria editoriale veneziana: un libro pericoloso è stato nascosto da qualche parte e in troppi lo stanno cercando. Il destino della Repubblica è legato al contenuto di quelle pagine.

Il Leone e la Rosa

Una sera di foglie rosse

In sixteenth-century Venice three bodies surface in the dark waters of the Canal Grande. Entrenched in a terrible war with the Turks and caught in a political struggle between power-hungry Pope Alexander VI and the newly elected Doge Loredan, the people of Venice fear that a demon has come to exact divine punishment for their sins. Doge Loredan is determined to find the real culprit before the Pope can turn the people against him. To do so, he hires unorthodox German monk Mathias to investigate the murders. Soon Lorenzo Scarpa, a young printer and nephew to one of the victims, joins in the search. The mystery leads them into Venice's underground printing industry, where they learn of a dangerous book hidden somewhere in the city, a book whose secrets could determine the destiny of the Republic--a book that others are more than willing to kill for.

Riccardo Bruni

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