cover image Death in a Serene City

Death in a Serene City

Edward Sklepowich. Avon Books, $4.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71636-4

When an American writer leaps from her window into a Venetian canal, her ostensible suicide takes a back seat to the death of a poor washerwoman and the theft of a prized relic in this distinguished debut mustery. (Oct.)