The Road to Pienza

The action-packed sequel to the best-selling thriller, The Road to Montepulciano

On the night of the ninth of June 1944, four days after the Allied liberation of Rome, four nuns are murdered in a railway carriage at the Vatican City railway station.

Sixteen years later, returning to Tuscany after a gruelling book signing tour of Australia, Damson O’Reilly finds his partner, Giancarlo (no longer a detective but now a well-known and successful lawyer) engrossed in a slander case between Italy’s screen heartthrob, Mario Celestino, and a high-profile, fascist industrialist, Giovanni Scavola.

The case uncovers buried secrets, secrets that bring to light the involvement of both men in the WW2 crime and which lead to kidnapping, torture and murder, culminating in a dramatic, bloody outcome that will rock the Italian nation to its core.

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Author’s Note

“La Mensola” is a real house. It doesn’t exist in the exact spot that I’ve placed it in the story, an area I know very well, having spent many summers holidaying and working in the region around Montepulciano. It’s situated elsewhere in Tuscany and unless things have changed in recent years, it’s still abandoned and in need of renovation.

The author wishes to stress that this book is historical fiction. Events, names, places, dates, and the activities of real people may have occasionally been tweaked to advance the narrative.

This book is dedicated to the memory of my first close friends in Italy, Peter Locke and Pierluigi Meneghetti, both still deeply missed.