Christobel Kent

The Dead Season is the third of Christobel’s crime series set in Florence. A heat-wave has the city in its grip and most have fled to the hills, but Sandro Cellini will not be joining them as a series of seemingly unconnected events contrive to keep him sweltering at home: the disappearance of a young man; the rotting corpse of a bank manager; a bank-teller’s elderly mother who has imagined an intruder on her property – or has she?

Christobel divides her time between Cambridge and Italy, and her enthusiasm for all things Italian makes for wonderfully evocative prose. Come along to be transported to a sticky Florentine summer where nothing is quite as it seems, and only Cellini can untangle a series of devious crimes…