Bossily capable Molly Pargeter--devoted to Italian Renaissance art and amateur sleuthing--drags her reluctant family to a Tuscan villa. "Although the momentum falters slightly midway, Mortimer's seemingly effortless command of his craft makes this combination of well-plotted mystery and lightly barbed comedy a compelling pleasure," concluded PW.
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A woman takes her husband and children to the Italian home of another English family accompanied by her eccentric father. A sense of foreboding hangs over the holiday from the start as the house, as well as its absentee owners, exert their presence.

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4.0 out of 5 stars COMPLEX, PLENTY OF LOCAL COLOR, Jun 9 1998

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The Amazon.com synopsis does not do justice to this book by wonderful writer John Mortimer. If you have been to Tuscany, or merely wish you had, the details of the Tuscan landscape and the villa La Felicita make you drool with envy. The family members are all vividly characterized - you can only wonder how the grandfather has avoided being the victim of a homicide during his 77 years, You are halfway through the novel before you realize that although you sympathize with Molly, the heroine, you don't particularily like her - and why is that, I wonder? Sorry to have finished the book- it will be difficult to find another novel which so neatly captures the Ex-Patriate British scene in Italy - and a mystery to boot!

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