Murder at the Monastery

In the Tuscan monastery of Celle, Brother Matteo enters St. Francis's former cell to discover a body wearing a monk's cloak hunched over a prayer stand with a knife in his back. In London, Howard Fitzjohn, a retired banker is almost murdered on the steps of the Atheneum club by a poisoned dart. He flees the country, seeking refuge in Celle. The events, are part of complicated yarn of international intrigue, double-crossing, clever sleuthing by English and Italian detectives, a reporter's do...