Intrigue in Italics

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Intrigue in Italics

   The third exciting adventure in the Claire Gulliver series is here, check News and Updates for signings scheduled. 
   Librarian-turned-travel-bookstore-owner Claire Gulliver joins her mother, Millie, and her mother’s friend, Ruth, in Italy.  Claire intends to “do” Florence while they attend a prestigious cooking school in the hills of Tuscany.
   Unfortunately, on her first day in Florence, tired, hot, waiting on the curb to cross a busy street, she locks eyes with a passing cyclist.  Imagine her pleasure at recognizing a friend so far from home.  But after the cyclist averts her head and passes Claire realizes it couldn’t have possibly been her friend because only last year she had attended her funeral.
   In spite of her mother’s warning to let it be as she leaves for her cooking school, or perhaps because of it, Claire adds one more item to her To Do list: tracking down the person she saw on the street and establishing without a doubt whether or not it is her friend. 
   Meanwhile, Millie and Ruth join a diverse group of chefs in the picturesque countryside to learn to cook Italian under the direction of famous chef, Jean Claude Martin.  But somehow amidst this satisfying environment of creating new dishes, exploring local wineries and food markets, disturbing incidents occur which seems strangely out of place.  Italian cuisine turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected.
   Once more Claire becomes involved in intrigue while her mother becomes embroiled in her own exciting adventure.  They each take comfort in thinking the other is safely involved in innocuous pursuits but they are both wrong.