“Do not miss Red Riviera” New Review Praises David Downie’s Latest

"Like the best of mysteries, Red Riviera has deep roots in the tumultuous past, World War II.

The war was not kind to Italy, which had fallen under the spell of a bombastic leader...

Some of the people and much of the philosophy lived on. This book is the story of a talented police commissioner from Genoa, a woman rising toward the pinnacle of the police establishment at the same time she fears approaching spinsterhood, and her efforts to learn why a retired American spy, a native of Genoa, disappeared at the same time Canadair water bombers were trying to extinguish fires in the forests and brush overlooking the Ligurian Coast.

That’s not the only problem she has. HER vice questor is a couple of notches more diabolical than the one Guido Brunetti must deal with in Venice and he’s not convinced modern Italy is ready for democracy."