{"product_id":"9781628725940","title":"Cara Massimina (Duckworth and the Italian Girls Series #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first Duckworth novel is \"Better than \u003ci\u003eSilence of the Lambs\u003c\/i\u003e . . . Macabre fun orchestrated with immaculate precision. It's a killer\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft, and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility. However, after the girl's mother—much to his chagrin—unequivocally forbids her from seeing him, he hits upon a perfect scheme: he convinces the besotted girl to run off with him, then sends ransom notes to her family. Following a frightening logic, Morris's subversions become deeper and darker. Soon events are spiraling with eerie momentum into a nightmare of deception and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first novel in what has become the Duckworth in Verona trilogy, \u003ci\u003eCara Massimina\u003c\/i\u003e is a comic thriller that will leave readers laughing out loud in mortified delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032087314672,"sku":"9781628725940","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628725940_p0.jpg?v=1763869906","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628725940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}