The Sudden Disappearance of the Worker Bees: A Commissario Simona Tavianello Mystery

On vacation with her husband in an idyllic Italian valley, Police Inspector Simona Tavianello stops at the local beekeeper’s shop to buy some honey, where she finds a body lying in the entrance. Simona tries to avoid involvement—she is, after all, off-duty. But when she realizes that the murder weapon is her own gun, what can she do but take charge?

The victim was an engineer at the controversial agricultural research center for Sacropiano, a biotechnology company accused of developing pesti...