A Florentine Revenge, Christobel Kent
A Florentine Revenge, Christobel Kent
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A Florentine Revenge

Author: Christobel Kent

Narrator: Suzannah Hampton

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2018


Synopsis

On a scorching summer afternoon in the suburbs of Florence, a small girl goes missing at a crowded swimming pool and is never seen alive again. For fifteen years a terrible crime lies unsolved, becoming one of the city's darkest and most shameful secrets, until one bitter winter night another body is found, at another swimming pool, and the case is reopened.

Celia Donnelly had just arrived in Florence at the time of the girl's disappearance and can remember only too well the face that filled the front pages of every Italian newspaper. When word of the gruesome new discovery breaks, she is in the midst of arranging a weekend of birthday celebrations for a wealthy Englishman's wife. However, as Celia undertakes what ought to be a routine work assignment, she finds herself more closely involved than she could have ever imagined with a tragedy that has haunted her dreams for fifteen years; and it is Celia who is compelled to bear witness when the past returns to exact a brutal and terrifying revenge.

About Christobel Kent

Christobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on April 25, 2015

Two of my favourite things with this one - a novel set in Italy (even better, Florence), and a bit of a murder mystery. A 7 year old English girl is murdered at a local Florentine swimming pool and then we jump 15 years ahead. Celia Donnelly is an English tour guide in the city of Florence. Her lates......more

Goodreads review by Alison on March 16, 2018

I can’t read any more from this author. It’s just not for me. Slow to start, full of misery, taking any joy out of Florence. Then there’s the whole must have children to be complete and the ending with Celia pregnant by Dan. Why would she go back to him? It made no sense. Plus other issues with the......more

Goodreads review by Ginger on August 01, 2014

This doesn't get marked as a Sandro Cellini mystery, but it introduces several key characters who appear in those Florentine mysteries. I enjoyed story, setting and the character writing. Especially good if one has at least a nodding acquaintance with the city of Florence.......more

Goodreads review by Jacque on February 29, 2008

This is a great mystery novel that takes place in Florence. I went to Italy a few years ago so it was fun to read this and remember a lot of the places. It is a good book that tells a lot of different characte's stories.......more

Goodreads review by Joe on October 30, 2021

I am happy to read any book set in Florence, my favorite city. This one does not paint a romantic view of the city, but tells a dark story, and it shows us how Sandro Cellini, Kent's main character for several books, ended up as a private detective instead of continuing his career as a police office......more