Daughter of Ashes

Teresa Battaglia, Book 3

By: Ilaria Tuti, Ekin Oklap - translator

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues, not even her partner, know that her Alzheimer’s is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work.

Teresa’s plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with menacing serial killer Giacomo Mainardi. Refusing to speak with anyone but Teresa, whose investigative work twenty-seven years prior landed him in maximum security prison, Mainardi has disconcerting news: somebody is after him, and only Teresa holds the key to keeping everyone, including herself, safe. To solve the case, Teresa must come face to face with a history she thought she’d buried, back to when Giacomo first began to kill, and Teresa—newly pregnant and married to an abusive man—did everything she could to catch him.

Set in the idyllic mountains of Northern Italy, the latest volume in Ilaria Tuti’s gripping series is a tour de force, a poignant and irresistible story about the relentless pull of the past on the present.

©2021, 2022 by Longanesi & C. S.r.l. / English translation ©2022 by Ekin Oklap (P)2023 Recorded Books

Compassion!

I love that an unapproachable disease and the horror of murder were both handled in understanding and gives new insights!

Character development and the way the author informed reader’s of the main character’s origin story.

The question mark left at the novels end . It was not clear who the murder’s accomplice was .