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Title: Cold Tuscan Stone
Subtitle: A Rick Montoya Italian Mystery, Book 1
Author: David Wagner
Narrator: David Colacci
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, 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 arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery to flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns.
However, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later 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 what proves to be 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, a sensuous heiress with a private art specialty and clientele. When Rick's girlfriend Erica, an art history professor, 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?
Members Reviews:
Add Wagner to the list
Just finished reading Cold Tuscan Stone by David Wagner. It was a good read. Reminded me of Martin Walker whose Bruno, Chief of Police, lives in the Perigord region of France. Walker's characters have more depth than Wagner's, but then he has written nine or ten books. They both emphasize the local culture and the food. Both authors made me want to visit the places they write about. The plot moved along and kept me guessing almost up to the reveal.I can always count on Walker, Louise Penny, and Donna Leon to keep me entertained. It looks like I can add David Wagner to that list. I look forward to reading the next in the series.
Tuscany with a twist
You could say "Yes, it's another detective in Tuscany" but it's not JUST another....
New Mexican born Italo-American translator detective: many opportunities for his talents and experience to color the action, to say nothing of the thought processes.
Wagner's observational and descriptive abilities, his well-wrought characters, and Tuscany itself make this a really absorbing and enjoyable book. I am looking forward to the next (due out soon) and many more.
Well.written
This is a well written book which may cause you to book a trip to Tuscany! Not only an excellent mystery which will keep one guessing but and excellent introduction to the Tuscany area! One learns about the dining and history of the area. I am anxiously waiting to read the next book in the series.
A Modern Day Etruscan Mystery
This book is for those who love Italian culture and âwho-done-itâs. I very much enjoyed Cold Tuscan Stoneâs tension building plot and its discussion of Italian art, history, food and personalities. If you canât be in Italy, at least you can read about it. I hope that Mr.
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Title: Cold Tuscan Stone
Subtitle: A Rick Montoya Italian Mystery, Book 1
Author: David Wagner
Narrator: David Colacci
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, 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 arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery to flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns.
However, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later 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 what proves to be 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, a sensuous heiress with a private art specialty and clientele. When Rick's girlfriend Erica, an art history professor, 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?
Members Reviews:
Add Wagner to the list
Just finished reading Cold Tuscan Stone by David Wagner. It was a good read. Reminded me of Martin Walker whose Bruno, Chief of Police, lives in the Perigord region of France. Walker's characters have more depth than Wagner's, but then he has written nine or ten books. They both emphasize the local culture and the food. Both authors made me want to visit the places they write about. The plot moved along and kept me guessing almost up to the reveal.I can always count on Walker, Louise Penny, and Donna Leon to keep me entertained. It looks like I can add David Wagner to that list. I look forward to reading the next in the series.
Tuscany with a twist
You could say "Yes, it's another detective in Tuscany" but it's not JUST another....
New Mexican born Italo-American translator detective: many opportunities for his talents and experience to color the action, to say nothing of the thought processes.
Wagner's observational and descriptive abilities, his well-wrought characters, and Tuscany itself make this a really absorbing and enjoyable book. I am looking forward to the next (due out soon) and many more.
Well.written
This is a well written book which may cause you to book a trip to Tuscany! Not only an excellent mystery which will keep one guessing but and excellent introduction to the Tuscany area! One learns about the dining and history of the area. I am anxiously waiting to read the next book in the series.
A Modern Day Etruscan Mystery
This book is for those who love Italian culture and âwho-done-itâs. I very much enjoyed Cold Tuscan Stoneâs tension building plot and its discussion of Italian art, history, food and personalities. If you canât be in Italy, at least you can read about it. I hope that Mr.