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Signatures in Stone (Lappin, Linda)
Signatures in Stone
Autor Lappin, Linda
Verlag pleasboat
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
Seiten 292 S.
Artikelnummer 47702260
ISBN 979-8-227-35246-0
CHF 39.70
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Zusammenfassung

Four travelers-an art critic, an aspiring painter, an aristocrat, and a mystery writer-meet in Italy's eerie Monster Park of Bomarzo during the Fascist era. The park's grotesque statues hide an alchemical secret. They point out a pathway to self-knowledge that leads through hell before ascending to the light. Finestone, the art critic, sees the park as a cosmic tool to alter fate, while Daphne, the mystery writer, believes hidden signs and signaturescan reveal the future and uncover the truth of past events. When a murder in the park shocks the group, Daphne becomes the prime suspect. To solve the murder and clear her name, she must confront her own demons and read the signs scattered all around her. In solving the murder she'll also crack the code of the Monster Park, and discover the source of its life-transforming power.

LINDA LAPPIN is the prize-winning author of four novels: The Etruscan (Wynkin deWorde, Ireland, 2004 & Pleasure Boat Studio, 2024), Katherine's Wish (Wordcraft, 2008), Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2013 & 2023), and Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne (Serving House Books, 2020). Signatures in Stone was the overall winner of the Daphne DuMaurier prize for best mystery novel of 2013. She is also the author of The Soul of Place: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci, (Travelers Tales, 2015), which won a Nautilus Award in the category of creativity in 2015. A former Fulbright scholar to Italy, she has lived mainly in Rome and Tuscia for over thirty years. In 2023, Pleasure Boat Studio published a deluxe, illustrated, paperback edition of Signatures in Stone to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Bomarzo Park of Monsters. The 2024 publication of The Etruscan by Pleasure Boat Studio is the first U.S. print edition of this book and the first paperback edition in any country. The author is at work on volume 3 of her Tuscia trilogy-Melusine-set in the area of Lake Bolsena, and featuring Daphne DuBlanc, heroine of Signatures in Stone. www.lindalappin.netFollow her on Substack at LL in Italy https://lindalappin.substack.com/ Instagram @linda_lappin_author