The Italian Wife

I enjoyed The Italian Wife by Kate Furnivall which is set in 1930s Italy when Mussolini was in power.  Architect Isabella Berotti is sitting in a cafe when a woman asks to leave her small daughter with her for a few minutes.  Then shockingly Isabella witnesses the woman plunge to her death from a nearby tower.  The little girl is taken to an orphanage and Isabella is left with the mystery as to why the girl was left with her.  Isabella later meets a photographer, Roberto, and she starts to realise  they are living in dangerous times.  Ten years earlier her husband was assassinated and she survived the same attack.  She wants to know why her husband was killed and finds everything is connected.  Isabella and Roberto become romantically linked and together they solve the mystery. 31/2/5