Alec Blume returns to action in this intricate and heart-pounding new novel. With the help of his associate Caterina, Blume is called to the scene of a death connected to a spate of muggings. Though the Carabinieri-military police-are trying to control the investigation, Blume, never one to bow to authority, pursues it his own way. When it becomes clear that the victim is an art forger, enemies-and hidden treasures-begin to emerge. Relying on old...

Directed to secretly monitor an investigation into the attempted murder of a former terrorist, Commissario Alec Blume also investigates an eccentric professor who is a common link between the crime and the death of a young woman.