From the author of the highly acclaimed Horace Rumpole series comes an intriguing novel about a family's holiday in Italy that quickly is overshadowed by a strange sense of foreboding.... It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners and things start to go horribly wrong.