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The Drowning River: A Mystery in Florence
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Author
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Christobel Kent.
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Minotaur
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hardcover
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9780312621018
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309/2010
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20598
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In this debut mystery we meet Sandro Cellini, Florence's answer to Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti. One wet November in Florence, the grieving widow of an eminent Jewish architect comes to visit Sandro Cellini, good husband, disgraced ex-policeman, and recently turned PI, to ask him to investigate her husband's suicide. But as Cellini doggedly retraces the architect's last hours through the worst rains since the devastating floods of 1966, a young Englishwoman is found to have gone missing from the city's community of hard-drinking, high-living art students, and Sandro's search turns abruptly into something grimmer and more urgent than he could have imagined. "The beginning of a potent and promising new series. [Christobel] Kent masterfully builds the suspense to the breaking point.... Add the absorbing plot to characters fashioned with care and depth, smooth and polished prose and a detailed and loving portrait of Florence, and you have an accomplished first outing in what has all the marks of a distinguished series."—Richmond Times-Dispatch
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