That Last Night in Italy

A psychological thriller by Ellen Misciattelli Bernardini.

Some secrets are buried. Others live in the family.

The night Dante Monaldeschi’s parents were murdered in a moonlit Italian olive grove, he was just a child – a witness who became a target. The killer saw him and the warning was simple: never come back.

Years later, Dante ignores that warning and returns to Italy.

Reunited with his glamorous yet vulnerable cousin Amara in the crumbling family palazzo in the Umbrian village of Beltorre – and with Apollo, his beloved dog, who has always seen the ghosts the living cannot – Dante begins pulling at threads that were meant to stay tied. What unravels is bigger than a family tragedy: stolen Etruscan antiquities, shadowy religious collectors willing to kill for one-of-a-kind treasures, and a treachery reaching from ancient underground shrines to the halls of American power.