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    Deadly to the Sight

    By Edward Sklepowich

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    Back in Venice after a long absence, Urbino Macintyre pursues a blackmailer

    For two years, Urbino Macintyre has been away from his beloved city, but when he steps off the train and into a gondola in Venice, he knows he has come home. His first stop is to see his beloved friend, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini. But the contessa is not her usual lively self. She is being blackmailed, and only Macintyre can help.

    He follows the blackmailer, an old woman from the island of Burano, seeking clues to her motives. When she is found murdered at a cocktail party, Macintyre slips into the expat society of the tiny, remote island, where land is expensive, life is cheap, and gossip can be a deadly weapon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 5, 2015
    ISBN9781784089771
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    Edward Sklepowich

    Edward Sklepowich is an American author of mysteries. Raised in Connecticut, he grew up living with his parents and his grandparents, who immersed him in Italian culture and Neapolitan dialect from a young age. A Fulbright scholarship took him to Europe and Africa, and he has made his home across the Mediterranean, living in Venice, Naples, Egypt, and Tunisia. Deeply connected to his Italian heritage, Sklepowich has used the country as the setting for all of his fiction. Sklepowich’s debut novel, Death in a Serene City (1990), introduced Urbino Macintyre, an American expatriate and amateur sleuth who undertakes to solve a Venetian murder. Sklepowich treats Venice as a character, using its ancient atmosphere to shape his classically structured mysteries. He has written eight more Mysteries of Venice—most recently, The Veils of Venice (2009).

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