Villa Triste (Paperback)

from jtck121166

This is more ambitious than the run-of-the-mill crime fiction at £0.89, and worth much more in every sense. It takes the form of the diary of an Italian anti-fascist partisan interleaved with a contemporary whodunnit, the solution to the latter obviously relating closely to the events described ...

from jtck121166

This is more ambitious than the run-of-the-mill crime fiction at £0.89, and worth much more in every sense. It takes the form of the diary of an Italian anti-fascist partisan interleaved with a contemporary whodunnit, the solution to the latter obviously relating closely to the events described i...

from bakersfieldbarbara

Florence, 1943 Villa Triste opens with Caterina trying on a wedding dress in 1943. Her fiancee is a Medic on a hospital ship in North Africa, due home in two months for the wedding. Invasion, and because war changes everything, Caterina's sister, Isabella starts acting differently and disappears ...

from karen_o

I've been renewing this library book for at least three months now. Always resisting actually reading it because it was a doorstopper at 629 pages. I actually found it an amazingly fast read once I took the plunge and I'm very glad I read it. Story of two sisters in the Italian partisan/resistanc...

from jtck121166

This is more ambitious than the run-of-the-mill crime fiction at £0.89, and worth much more in every sense. It takes the form of the diary of an Italian anti-fascist partisan interleaved with a contemporary whodunnit, the solution to the latter obviously relating closely to the events described i...