Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday March
5, 2024. We will be discussing Cold Tuscan Stone by David P. Wagner.
This is the first book featuring Rick Montoya, an American translator living in
Rome.
The book description from the publisher’s website is: “Rick
Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator.
He's settling in to la dolce vita when a school friend who is now senior in the
Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a
list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany
posing as a buyer for a gallery, ready to spend his days sipping wine and
examining Roman artifacts to flush out burial urn traffickers. But before
sunset on Rick's first day in Volterra, a gallery employee dies in a brutal
fall from a high cliff. The local Commissario and his team consider Rick an
amateur, and worse, a foreigner. And now they suspect him in the dead man's
murder. While the Volterra squad pursues its leads, Rick continues to meeting
his own suspects: a museum director, a top gallery owner, a low-profile
import/export businessman and his enterprising color-coordinated assistant, and
a sensuous heiress with a private art specialty and clientele. As the murder
mystery and the art trafficking heat up, has Rick's role made him the target of
both cops and criminals?”
We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 6:30
pm and on Zoom. For more information, see Sara at the Reference Desk.
