by Lucretia Grindle
This is a mystery story set in Florence, the setting for the story shifts between WWII and the present.
Two aged partisans are murdered and both have salt in their mouths. As the police officer investigating the crimes tries to solve the murders he is drawn back into activities in WWII and the lives of the two men and a women whose diary is in the safe of one of the murdered men.
The police officer becomes obsessed with learning more about the life of the women who wrote the diary and he is being shadowed by an American woman who is trying to find out the true identity of her Italian grandfather. In the end it turns out that her genealogy is intertwined with the lives of the people the police officer is tracking.
The story is well told and provides good historical details. The obession of the police officer and the American, in the present, add to the intrigue in the story. It was a book that I didn't want to put down, you wanted to know what would happen next, or what new detail would be uncovered. The ending was a bit of a surprise but the story neatly tied things together.
I would certainly recommend this book as an engaging read.
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