The Italian Correspondent by Belinda Alexandra

A post-war mystery from Belinda Alexandra, bestselling author of The Masterpiece and Tuscan Rose. For readers of Fiona McIntosh, Natasha Lester, and Kate Quinn.

Rome, 1951. Veronica Gold is in the city as the correspondent for Vogue. Italy is trying to shake off its dark fascist past and reposition itself as the most glamorous nation in Europe, and Veronica is trying to forget her own dark past as a war reporter attached to the Eighth Army at the brutal height of the Second World War.

War-weary, recently divorced, and ready to lose herself in la dolce vita, Veronica instead finds three men pulling her in different directions. Lyle Cooper, her ex-husband and an American diplomat. Marcello Fabbri, an archaeologist and former partisan now working in the ruins of Pompeii. And Count Carlo Durazzo, husband of Veronica's estranged friend, the enigmatic heiress Emerald Evergreen.

Before she can untangle her feelings for any of them, one of the three is murdered. Veronica is pulled into a world of spies, shifting loyalties, and a continent on the edge of nuclear war, where no-one is quite who they appear to be.

Complicated feelings arise, but before Veronica can resolve them, one of these three men is murdered. Veronica is quickly drawn into a sphere of spies and a world on the edge of nuclear war, one where nothing and nobody is quite as they seem.

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