This is the fifth book in Kent's mystery series featuring Sandro Cellini, retired under a cloud from the Polizia della Stato, now eking out a living as a private investigator in Florence.
It's August and the city is a furnace of heat and humidity. Everyone with sense and some money has left town for the duration, seeking refuge in the hills or by the sea. But Sandro has a case, brought to him by his assistant, Guili, a recovering drug addict who Sandro and his wife Luisa rescued and befriended. Guili also works at a Women's Centre, as a kind of social worker for women in trouble. That's where she found Anna Niescu, a gentle young woman on her own in the city who is convinced that her lover and the father of her very soon to be born child would not have disappeared and left her alone. He is, she assures Sandro, a young man with a good job in a local bank.
Meanwhile Roxana Delfino, a teller in that same local bank, also stuck in the city during the summer heat, has very little to do but worry about her aging and increasingly erratic mother, and wonder about the inexplicable absence of two of her regular banking clients.
When the bank manager's body turns up in the bushes along a busy highway roundabout, Sandro discovers his case is more complicated that he assumed. Circumstances are deceiving, people are not what they appear to be, and Anna, Guili and Roxana are all at risk unless Sandro can find a way through a maze of greed, avarice and fraud.
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