Cold tuscan stone : Rick Montoya Italian Mystery Series, Book 1

Rick Montoya Has Just Moved From New Mexico To Rome, Embracing The Life Of A Translator. He’s Beginning To Settle In To La Dolce Vita When A School Friend Who Is Now Senior In The Italian Art Squad Recruits Rick For An Unofficial Undercover Role. Armed With A List Of Galleries, Suspects, And An Expense Account, Rick Would Arrive In Tuscany Posing As A Buyer For A Santa Fe Gallery And Flush Out Priceless Burial Urn Traffickers. But Before Sunset On Rick’s First Day, A Gallery Employee Dies In A Brutal Fall From A High Cliff. Has The Trade In Fraudulent Artifacts Upgraded To Murder? Are The Traffickers Already On To Rick? The Local Commissario And His Team Consider Rick An Amateur, And Worse, A Foreigner. Plus Rick Is A Suspect In The Dead Man’s Murder. While The Volterra Squad Pursues Its Leads, Rick Continues To Interview His List: A Museum Director, A Top Gallery Owner, A Low-profile Import/export Businessman And His Enterprising Color-coordinated Assistant, And A Sensuous Heiress With A Private Art Specialty And Clientele. When Rick’s Girlfriend Erica Arrives From Rome To Visit Him, She Rekindles A Friendship With An Alluring, Maybe Dangerous, Acquaintance. Has Rick’s Role Made Him The Target Of Both Cops And Criminals? He will take seventeen to the match - how many will he bring back? In Cibola football is a matter of life and death. Sir Tristram must reunite his Blood City teammates - Knights, Pirates and Westerners - to win the prestigious Seskie tournament against their oldest rivals. Behind the match is a bigger power play, a king's mission to bring down his greatest rival by persuasion, trickery or force. Needing a squad of soldiers as well as footballers, Sir Tristram must also find a place on tour and in his heart for the teenage child he has not addressed by name since infancy...