| Record Number |
838348 |
| ISBN |
9781474609623 (paperback) |
| 1474609627 (paperback) |
| Author |
Tuti, Ilaria author. |
| Title |
Painted in blood / Ilaria Tuti ; translated from the Italian by Ekin Oklap. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
436 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Teresa Battaglia 2 |
| Contents note |
"Orignally published as Ninfa dormiente in Italian in 2019 by Longanesi & C." |
| Published in the United States under the title 'The sleeping nymph' by Soho Press. |
| Summary Note |
'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days of the Second World War. A painting carrying a shocking secret hidden in the red pigment on the canvas, made with the blood of a human heart. But whose heart? There is no body, no confession. Only that faint trace of blood. And that's what leads commissioner Teresa Battaglia - herself hiding an unspeakable truth - to the Resia Valley, in the north eastern part of Italy: a perfect genetic enclave protected for centuries from the outside world. The valley and the portrait are the only clues for a murder that occurred more than 70 years before. A red thread leading to the shadow of someone hell-bent on protecting a sacred secret. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Italian. |
| Subject - Name |
Battaglia, Teresa(Fictitious character)Fiction |
| Subject |
Women detectives -- Italy -- Fiction |
| Policewomen -- Italy -- Fiction |
| Police -- Italy -- Fiction |
| Criminal profilers -- Fiction |
| Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Resia River Valley (Italy) -- Fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction |
| Added Author |
Oklap, Ekin translator. |
| Added title |
The sleeping nymph. |
| Shelf Location |
F TUTI |
