The Italian Secret: A Novel [Hardcover]

An old family secret leads from the streets of Sydney to Italy’s sun-drenched Neapolitan coast, in this immersive historical mystery from #1 international bestselling author Tara Moss

Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a journey to begin a new life far from home.

Naples, 1943. A woman shelters underground from a wartime air raid, praying her husband will return home.

Sydney, 1948. Billie Walker, returned from a stint as a wartime investigative journalist, uncovers a dusty box in her father’s old office whose contents—correspondence with a woman on the other side of the world—just might explain how they all are connected.

Plunged into a perilous search that will take her onto the first postwar luxury passenger ship to sail across the ocean to Italy, Billie finds herself up against a dangerous adversary—someone with a mysterious grudge against her family—as she races to uncover the secrets her father left behind. And as the trail leads her towards two women whose histories may be entwined with her own, she realizes that her father’s Italian secret just might upend everything she thought she knew.
For lovers of a sexy noir – led by a femme fatale female detective – turn to The Italian Secret, Tara Moss’ latest. From Australia to Italy in this post-WWII novel, PI Billie Walker, who has a penchant for red lipstick and straightened stocking seams, investigates secrets from her own past. Moss writes snappy dialogue and drops in enough relevant fashion and simmering romance to keep the reader intrigued all the way to the last page. —Montecito Journal

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