The Summer House

Christobel Kent

Rose Fell's friends think she's taking a big risk when she leaves the security of home and career to move to the beautiful but isolated village of Grosso near Genoa. But after a year of emotional turmoil Rose no longer has any ties back home and she relishes the challenges of a new start.

Making a home however in the ravishing haunted landscape of Italy's Riviera coast turns our to be lonelier than Rose had anticipated. And it is only when she is asked to write a profile on one of her reclusive neighbours the once-glamorous film star Elvira Vitale that Rose feels her new life is really beginning.

But when a young girl's body is found on the local beach and the following day Elvira's hard-working cleaner Ania goes missing Rose finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation that threatens the idyll she has worked so hard to establish.