The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle

Honeymooning in Florence isn’t the dolce vita Mary Warren hoped; then she’s attacked – with devastating consequences. Courageously, a year later, she returns to lay her ghosts and start anew, only her attacker remains at large – with Mary determined to bring them to justice. In an evocative mixture of art, travelogue, bitter-sweet romance and the politics of religion, it’s hard for the reader not to look-up and wonder that they aren’t in Italy. An undeniably clever, atmospheric whodunit with a real difference, this powerful novel, like the haunting beauty of an angel in a renaissance painting, remains with the reader forever.