📙 Isabella's dead. She must be, because she justfound her own corpse in an alley. Now she'd quite like some answers,like who killed her, and how comeshe's never felt so alive? There's only one man who can solvesuch an impossible mystery: shoe maker andreluctant detective Lorenzo Valentini. But howdoes it relate to a farm worker who lived in theCasentino Valley over twenty years earlier? Willan attempt to divert the course of the Arnoto win the war with Pisa succeed?And, most importantly of all, canIsabella afford Valentini's fee? Witness a murderous romp through Renaissance Italyin a tale of death, obsession, shoe making and war.