When Daniel Leicester goes after his late wife's missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer he is transported to her final days a decade earlier. As unfinished business bleeds - quite literally - into the present Daniel begins to suspect Lucia's accidental death may not have been an accident after all. With characters ranging from the Bologna branch of Italy's Free and Acknowledged Masons to an activist group trashing tourist lets Tom Benjamin takes the reader on another colourful excursion to one of Italy's most mysterious locations as the English detective and his partner Dolores Pugliese go after the truth and a trace of justice in a changing city.

Part of the Daniel Leicester series.