Product Description: In a quiet holiday town in the Italian Apennines, during a torrid summer, a string of gruesome deaths stirs up trouble in the local community. A suspected suicide, which Inspector Cataldo is called in to investigate, brings to the surface shady events belonging to the past, and a mysterious foreigner shakes up the delicate social balance of a group of friends who have a lot to hide...read more

The first volume in a trilogy about the life and times of Alexander the Great describes the youth of the young prince as he grows to manhood in the court of King Philip, under the tutelage of the noted philosopher Aristotle, avenges the murder of his father, and embarks on his epic quest to conquer the world. Reprint.