A Season for the Dead
Delacorte, Apr 2004, 21.95, 400 pp.
ISBN: 0385337221
Rome is stifling under the summer heat when a serial killer begins a spree that leaves the dead posing as a martyred victim of Roman Catholic Church excessive zeal. Detective partners Nic Costa and Luca Rosta finds few beneficial clues and not much cooperation from the Vatican hierarchy though the first deceased was found in a reading room on the premises.
However, their inquiries lead th...
