Florence, summer 1963. Everyone has left town for the holidays, and the city is deserted, hot and full of mosquitoes. Inspector Bordelli is tossing and turning in bed when a telephone call informs him of a mysterious death: a wealthy Signora has been found dead in her villa.

The second novel in the Inspector Bordelli series set in 1960s Florence - the detective must race to unmask a particularly brutal killer.

Florence, 1965. A man is found dead in his home, a pair of scissors stuck in his throat. Only one thing is known about him, he was a money lender. People used to call him 'the newcomer', almost in order to emphasise his strangeness.

The multiple prize-winning fourth book in the Inspector Bordelli crime series, translated from the Italian.