Its jaws open wide, a firefighting seaplane skims the glittering Gulf of
Portofino on Italy's jagged Ligurian coast, scooping up a lone swimmer
named Joe Gary. The super-rich, retired Italian-American has mob
connections and a dirty political past. Has he been snatched by accident
or murdered? Red Riviera, Commissioner Daria Vinci's first
investigation, is a wild ride from the tangled trails of the Cinque
Terre to glamorous Portofino to roistering Genoa. It's a Riviera made
red by riotous bougainvillea and spilled blood. Half-American, Daria
Vinci is an outsider, the unlikely rising star of Genoa's secretive
Special Operations Directorate DIGOS. In Red Riviera, she must face
down a Fascist police chief, the CIA's local mastermind, a former World
War Two Spitfire fighter pilot, and a plucky hundred-year-old marquise
whose memory is as long as it is vengeful, in order to solve her case.