The Italian Secret - by Tara Moss (Hardcover)

About the Book

"#1 international bestselling author Tara Moss returns with an immersive post-war mystery as glamorous investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy's sun-drenched Neapolitan coast"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

An old family secret leads from the streets of Sydney to Italy's sun-drenched Neapolitan coast, in this immersive historical mystery from #1 international bestselling author Tara Moss

Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a journey to begin a new life far from home.

Naples, 1943. A woman shelters underground from a wartime air raid, praying her husband will return home.

Sydney, 1948. Billie Walker, returned from a stint as a wartime investigative journalist, uncovers a dusty box in her father's old office whose contents--correspondence with a woman on the other side of the world--just might explain how they all are connected.

Plunged into a perilous search that will take her onto the first postwar luxury passenger ship to sail across the ocean to Italy, Billie finds herself up against a dangerous adversary--someone with a mysterious grudge against her family--as she races to uncover the secrets her father left behind. And as the trail leads her towards two women whose histories may be entwined with her own, she realizes that her father's Italian secret just might upend everything she thought she knew.

Review Quotes

"Another rip-roaring novel featuring one of my favorite detectives, Ms. Billie Walker. Moss's latest is both a tale of international intrigue and an intimate family drama, racing from the cosmopolitan city of Sydney to the war-torn shores of Naples. The mystery at its core is a doozy, the tension sublime. An unforgettable read." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Queen

"A richly layered, page-turning post-war mystery that explores, with depth and heart, how long-held secrets shape family and identity." --Susan Meissner, USA Today bestselling author of A Map to Paradise

"A fearless young woman sets out on a quest in this tense but heartwarming tale of family, love and honor spanning the globe from Naples to Sydney." --Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of the Royal Spyness series

"Billie Walker is enchanting, bringing style, verve and an unerring sense of justice to a post-war world full of grittiness, luxury, and danger. As her investigation leads her from present-day Sydney into a pre-war Italian past, the professional becomes achingly personal. At times tough, at other times deeply tender, armed with her trademark tilt hat and Fighting Red lipstick, she captured my heart." --Frances Liardet, New York Times bestselling author of We Must Be Brave and Think of Me

"Billie Walker is a heroine for the ages, and in The Italian Secret she is as sharp, alluring, and feisty as ever. Moss seamlessly weaves setting and action into a mystery that is at once intimate and sweeping as Billie travels from the streets of Sydney to the sparkling Italian coast in search of truth and justice. A pleasure from start to finish." --Elizabeth DeLozier, author of Eleanore of Avignon

About the Author

Tara Moss is the international bestselling author of 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, published in 19 countries and 13 languages, a documentary host, and award-winning human rights advocate. Moss is an outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children, and people with disabilities. She is a dual Australian/Canadian citizen, and divides her time between NSW and British Columbia.