by Linda Lappin
In this award-winning tale, a yearning for adventure, a desire for fulfillment and the need to get on with life after an unsuccessful liaison bring Harriet Sackett to Tuscia in the Italian countryside in 1922. Her intention is to photograph Etruscan tombs for the Theosophical Society but she gets more than she bargained for when she meets Federigo del Re, the Count of Vignavecchia, occultist and amateur archaeologist, who introduces her to the eerie world of the Etruscans and their mystic sensuality. Harriet keeps a notebook describing their affair, later to be discovered by her cousins Stephen and Sarah who come to Italy to rescue her after a devastating breakdown. Their own dark secrets are revealed as they read Harriet’s personal journal, hoping to find clues to her alarming condition. Meanwhile the count has vanished into thin air. As Harriet stalks her phantom-lover, the reader is enticed into solving the mystery which propels this novel: who is Federigo del Re? Noble lover, unscrupulous conman, Etruscan ghost, or simply the product of Harriet’s delusion? Lappin keeps the suspense pulled taut till the very last page. Impossible to put down, The Etruscan is a tantalizing and timeless story of immense appeal.
Runner up in the Fiction Category, the New York Festival of Books 2010
Finalist, First Novel Category, Next Generation Indie Awards, 2010
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