A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.

When a college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastery, Capt. Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student was sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or a member of the brutal criminal organization known as the Camorra? As Monte pursues her investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts, and across the city heaps of trash pile...

A wealthy woman alleges a valuable necklace was stolen from her hotel room on island of Ischia. The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect--a young woman who is Nonna Maria's goddaughter. She takes the heat, but privately, she proclaims her innocence. Then the body of an unidentified woman is found on a curved road near the borough of Barano....

As a fifteen-year-old in New York, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice the hard way. Today, twenty-three years later, he is a homicide detective on the Naples police force, the toughest cop on the toughest beat in Europe. When Gian learns his teenage niece has gone missing in Manhattan, the two cities, the two worlds, are set to collide. As he dashes from the sun-drenched villages of Italy to the darkest drug dens of New York, the journey links...