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Painted in Blood (aka The Sleeping Nymph) (Teresa Battaglia, Bk 2)
Painted in Blood - aka The Sleeping Nymph - Teresa Battaglia, Bk 2 Author:Ilaria Tuti 'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days of the Second World War. A painting carrying a shocking secret hidden in the red pigment on the canvas, made with the blood of a human heart. — But whose heart? — There is no body, no confession. Only that faint trace ... more »of blood. And that's what leads commissioner Teresa Battaglia -- herself hiding an unspeakable truth -- to the Resia Valley, in the north eastern part of Italy: a perfect genetic enclave protected for centuries from the outside world.
The valley and the portrait are the only clues for a murder that occurred more than 70 years before. A red thread leading to the shadow of someone hell-bent on protecting a sacred secret.