As Pico investigates, she uncovers a labyrinthine plot that stretches back decades to the theft of a priceless Caravaggio from a church in Sicily. Caught in the crosshairs of an obsessive art collector, a police murder investigation and a Mafia-sanctioned vendetta, her quest takes her across Europe: from the shadows behind the veneer of Copenhagen’s Nordic serenity, down the sun-kissed streets of the Italian Riviera, and even along the secretive corridors of the Vatican.
As she fights to uncover the truth and witnesses the lengths one will go to protect the secrets of the past, Pico confronts the moral quandaries that emerge when the pursuit of art eclipses the bounds of right and wrong.
Rosaria Giorgi was born in Italy. After graduating from the University of Pisa, with a degree in Scandinavian Languages and Literature, she lived in Denmark while studying at the University of Copenhagen. She later spent a decade in Ireland working as an entrepreneur, before moving to Toronto, Canada, where she now resides.