Book description
Thirty-something New Yorker Lucy Stark leads a quiet, solitary life working for a bestselling - but remarkably untalented writer. When he dies at a villa in Tuscany, Lucy flies to Italy to settle his affairs. What begins as a grim chore soon threatens her self-reliance and her very sense of…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Italian Fever as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m a big fan of mysteries, and one reason is that the “mystery” genre can take in so many different approaches. You got your gumshoe, your locked door mystery, your police-team investigation. Then there’s mysteries that don’t fit any category neatly. This is one, and it’s so fun. An assistant to a famous novelist is called to Italy after he dies…mysteriously, gruesomely. Once there, she does fall into a fever while trying to uncover various puzzles regarding the artist’s life, work and demise while also falling feverishly in love with a local hottie. Valerie Martin is a supremely skilled writer…
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