Author:
Alessia Gazzola
Publisher:
Longanesi
Release Date:
19-11-2024
London, 1924. Beatrice Bernabò, known as Miss Bee, is a twenty-year-old Italian who has moved to the English capital with her father Leonida, a professor of Italian studies at the University, and her sisters. Her father enjoys the protection of the Italian ambassador to the UK. Invited to dinner by the noblewoman across the road, Mrs Ashbury – widow and mother of a unique and charming son, the perturbing Christopher known as Kit – Beatrice finds herself, despite herself, in the middle of a murder mystery that is at the same time a love triangle: if one is not guilty, the other is. But who is she in love with, one or the other?
Set in the glossy and decadent world of the British aristocracy awakening from the nightmare of the First World War, amidst seductive viscounts and detectives who dream of cutting off their heads as in the French Revolution, this Miss Bee adventure is a sparkling and enchanting combination of suggestions – from Agatha Christie to Downton Abbey, from the novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett to Bridgerton – to which is added the unmistakable uniqueness of Alessia Gazzola’s touch.