Murder & Marsala

The Floating City has secrets. And some of them can't swim.



Isabella "Bella" Rossi is finally enjoying some peace at her Tuscan vineyard when a letter arrives from New York. Her estranged father has died, leaving her nothing but a heavy brass key and an address in Venice.



Expecting a quiet closure to a painful past, Bella travels to the watery city with her terrifying grandmother, her three-legged dog Dante, and the handsome Maresciallo Matteo De Luca. But what she unlocks is a nightmare. Her father's crumbling gothic palazzo isn't a home-it's a warehouse for an international art forgery ring. And floating in a massive oak cask of sweet Marsala wine in the flooded sub-cellar is the body of his former partner.



Trapped in Venice by a corrupt local police inspector who immediately names her the prime suspect, Bella has forty-eight hours to clear her name. The only way out is to find the one genuine masterpiece her father hid before he died: a priceless, lost Renaissance painting.



From the blazing glass foundries of Murano to a high-society masquerade ball dripping with secrets, Bella and Matteo must outsmart a desperate aristocrat, a charming smuggler, and a killer who will stop at nothing to get the painting.



But the city's warning sirens are blaring. The Acqua Alta-the legendary high tide-is rushing in.



Can Bella unlock the truth before the floodwaters bury her father's masterpiece (and her) forever?



"Murder & Marsala" is the thrilling fourth book in The Tuscan Vineyard Mysteries. Packed with suspense, humor, breathtaking Venetian scenery, and a dash of romance, this cozy mystery is a getaway you won't forget.