Villa of Mysteries

The Villa of Mysteries is the second in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson's detective novels of love and death in Italy.When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa, a maverick pathologist, thinks she's got the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. Leo Falcone, the chief inspector, knows this case is recent history and the horror ...