Critiques en avant-première

An art theft novel set in Italy and Boston’s Italian neighborhood that combines the intrigue of The Da Vinci Code with earthy magic realism and sibling rivalry. In Rome, on May 12, 1972, a crazy Hungarian named Lazlo Toth climbed over a guardrail onto Michelangelo’s Pietà and battered a hammer at the statue. “I am Jesus Christ!” he shouted. Carlo Barzini, a merchant from Boston’s North End, happened to be there. He snapped a picture, picked up a fragment of the statue’s nose, and sneaked out of the chapel. His actions set off an art theft escapade that connected Boston’s prestigious museums to the Vatican’s coffers. Carlo’s twin sister, Alicia, an operating room nurse with psychic abilities, helps her brother get out of the mess, a mess that’s filling her brother’s pockets with lots of money. She puts her life-long jealousies aside—and loses her virginity—in a wild plot involving kidnapping, murder, an unscrupulous Vatican cardinal and a romance with a fallen priest. Paperback release