The Fallen Angel by David Hewson

A death in Rome echoes a centuries-old crime.

Good Condition – Light shelf and edge wear with minor corner creasing and slight page tanning from age.

When British academic Malise Gabriel plunges to his death from a Rome balcony, detective Nic Costa is first inclined to call it an accident. But the more he examines the case — the inconsistencies, the haunted eyes of Gabriel's seventeen-year-old daughter Mina, and the family's tangled history across England, America and Italy — the more he senses something far darker at play. Mina's fascination with Beatrice Cenci, a young noblewoman beheaded by the Vatican centuries earlier for killing her own abusive father, seems to eerily mirror her own life. As another body turns up and old secrets begin to surface, Nic must untangle truth from legend before evil closes in for the kill. A gripping, atmospheric thriller steeped in the beauty and brutality of modern and historical Rome.