The Unraveling of Julia, Lisa Scottoline
The Unraveling of Julia, Lisa Scottoline
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The Unraveling of Julia

Bestseller

Author: Lisa Scottoline

Narrator: Maria Marquis

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2025


Synopsis

An international bestselling author crafts a “compelling thriller with excellent twists!” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) in which a young widow inherits a mysterious Tuscan estate and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy—twisty and transportive, this is suspense with a passport.
 
One awful night, Julia Pritzker witnesses the murder of her beloved husband during a mugging on a Philadelphia street. Later, while grieving him, she’s suddenly fearful that her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.
 
Her luck seems to change when stunning news arrives from Italy, informing her that she’s inherited a fortune, a Tuscan villa, and a vineyard. But she’s mystified by her Italian benefactor, a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. She flies to Tuscany for answers.
 
There, Julia learns that Rossi suffered from delusions of grandeur, believing herself to be a descendant of Caterina Sforza, a powerful Renaissance duchess. Julia doubts that is true, but she can’t deny the uncanny resemblance between her, Caterina, and Rossi. She starts to unearth eerie parallels between them—and disturbing secrets.
 
Before long, Julia suspects she’s being followed and experiences disorienting delusions of her own. Even meeting a romantic Florentine doesn’t quiet her unease. Then events turn deadly, and Julia finds herself in a harrowing struggle for sanity and survival.
 
 
 
 

About Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline is a # New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of thirty-two novels which have sold over 30 million copies in thirty-five countries. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter Francesca Serritella for The Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Chick Wit”—a witty and fun take on life from a woman’s perspective. Lisa reviews popular fiction and nonfiction, and her reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and she has also served as president of Mystery Writers of America. Visit her online at Scottoline.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on May 21, 2025

Lisa Scottoline is one of my auto-approved thriller authors, and I always enjoy grabbing one of her books, settling into my favorite couch, and devouring her words as the tension escalates, keeping me on the edge of my seat. This time, she takes a different approach, blending paranormal thriller and......more

Goodreads review by James on July 04, 2025

My first Lisa Scottoline book... and it was quite the ghostly one. Having not read her work before, I was unsure going in what to expect; however, in the initial chapters, the writing style was super over-exaggerated in that it felt stiff and too detailed. I kept wondering... what's going on here? U......more

Goodreads review by kitkat on May 11, 2025

- dnf ⛈️ 2 stars - my thoughts this was my first lisa scottoline book, so i was really hoping it would work for me, but it didn’t. when i read the description for this book, i thought that the astrology would be a small part of this book in a bigger story, but it wasn’t. up to the part where......more

Goodreads review by Debra on June 23, 2025

Julia Pritzker had suffered a lot of loss in the beginning of this book. First, she lost her adoptive parents, then her husband was murdered. She is grieving when she receives a letter informing her that Emilia Rossi has left her a Tuscan Villa in her will! She does not know Emilia Rossi but as she......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on May 15, 2025

I received a free copy of, The Unraveling of Julia, by Lisa Scottoline, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Julia Pritzker, is not having good luck, she lost her adoptive parents, and then her husband is murdered. Julia is shocked to find she has inherited a villa in I......more


Quotes

"A page-turning exploration into love, loss, forces larger than ourselves, and the way in which our own pasts and our ancestors' histories resonate into our present, The Unraveling of Julia has all the hallmarks of the very best Lisa Scottoline novels, and yet is also something spectacularly new. I literally could not put down this brilliant, Gothic tale that takes readers into sumptuous Tuscany and Renaissance Italy and has us questioning the past, as we sit on the edge of our seats. This might just be my favorite Lisa Scottoline book yet, and that's saying a lot!"—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Queens of Crime

“The latest by Scottoline has it all: a shocking murder, a crumbling Tuscan villa, and a heroine forced to rise above her grief after a tragic loss. Scottoline deftly weaves a touch of astrology through this fast-paced thriller, and the result is a stunning novel that explores the lines between reality and dreams, sanity and madness, and will leave you breathless.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Queen