Cruel Music

The impending death of a pope sparks a web peril, intrigue, greed, and murder for Tito Amato and his family when his merchant brother Alessandro is imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge thanks to a senator who is willing to do anything to ensure that a Venetian will sit on the Throne of St. Peter after the upcoming papal election, in a mystery set in eighteenth-century Venice. (Mystery & Detective)