{"product_id":"9781429906517","title":"The Drowning River: A Mystery in Florence","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Sandro Cellini, Florence's answer to Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne wet November in Florence, the grieving widow of an eminent Jewish architect comes to visit Sandro Cellini, good husband, disgraced ex-policeman, and recently turned PI, to ask him to investigate her husband's suicide. Cellini takes her on out of sympathy, although this first case makes a downbeat start to his new career. There seems no doubt that Claudio Gentileschi, a Holocaust survivor and lifelong depressive found drowned on a bleak stretch of the River Arno, did take his own life, and initially Cellini imagines that his only duty is to support the widow through her time of mourning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as Cellini doggedly retraces the architect's last hours through the worst rains since the devastating floods of 1966, a young Englishwoman is found to have gone missing from the city's community of hard-drinking, high-living art students, and Sandro's search turns abruptly into something grimmer and more urgent than he could have imagined, as he uncovers a network of greed and corruption that is hidden under a veneer of tradition and refinement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Drowning River\u003c\/i\u003e is a spot-on, atmospheric new mystery, the first in a series featuring Cellini.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174121980144,"sku":"9781429906517","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429906517_p0.jpg?v=1769901374","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429906517","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}