Daughter of Ashes

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In the stunning conclusion to Ilaria Tuti's gripping series set in the mountains of Northern Italy, aging detective Teresa Battaglia battles through escalating dementia to solve a crime that has haunted her for decades. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues-not even her partner, Inspector Marini-know that her Alzheimer's is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa's plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with serial killer Giacomo Mainardi. Refusing to speak with anyone but Teresa, whose investigative work twenty-seven years prior landed him in maximum security prison, Mainardi has disconcerting news- somebody is after him, and only Teresa holds the key to keeping everyone, including herself, safe. To solve the case, Teresa must come face to face with a past she thought she'd buried, back to when Giacomo first began to kill, and Teresa-newly pregnant and married to an abusive man-did everything she could to catch him.

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Praise for Daughter of Ashes

Daughter of Ashes is utterly spellbinding, and I cant stop thinking about this complex, unforgettable heroine. I am so glad to have discovered the gorgeously written novels of Ilaria Tuti!
Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast

Twenty-seven years ago, a promising young criminal investigator apprehended a serial killer. Now, as her brilliant mind threatens to betray her, hes asking for her help. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia is a detective for the ages, and her violent history collides with even more violent rituals as Ilaria Tuti takes readers into the dark heart of crime. Daughter of Ashes isan enveloping, elegant puzzle box mystery, every page of which sparkles and sings.
Tessa Wegert, author of The Kind to Kill

Ilaria Tuti offers equal parts Thomas Harris and Dan Brown (with a dash of True Detective) that will have you white-knuckling your way to the end of Daughter of Ashes.
Eryk Pruitt, author of Something Bad Wrong

Praise for the Teresa Battaglia novels

[Tuti] introduces a sympathetic heroine in Battaglia, whose gruffness masks a fear she may be losing her unique abilities.
The Wall Street Journal

[Teresa Battaglia] is out of shape, diabetic and busy fighting the early stages of Alzheimer's diseaseon top of handling a complex case . . . It's nice to see a cop who isn't slim and sexy chasing after serial killers.
NPR

Creepy and evocative.
The Guardian

[A] stunning and disturbing trilogy . . . Teresa has always been an extraordinary character.
First Clue

Ilaria Tuti demonstrates her stature as a storyteller who makes sculptures and paintings of the intense veins of the human soul. Her prose is dense and deep. Charged with life, even when facing death.
Annachiara Sacchi, Corriere della Sera

A colossal black rebus of the soul, which Tuti knows how to investigate masterfully, with a grasp of Evil that once again stuns the reader.
Fabrizio d'Esposito, The Daily Fact

The key word for entering Ilaria Tuti's world is empathy, a deep and original emotional intelligence, thanks to which she manages to put herself in others' shoes, with the same investigative method of her Teresa Battaglia, a police commissioner with a wounded physique and an extraordinary brain."
Raffaella Silipo, Tuttolibri, La Stampa

Author Bio

Ilaria Tuti lives in Gemona del Friuli, in the province of Udine. She has a degree in economics, has always had a passion for painting, and freelances for a small independent publisher in her spare time. She won the 2014 Gran Giallo Citt di Cattolica literary prize for her short story "The Pagan Child." Flowers over the Inferno was her debut novel. Ekin Oklap was born in Turkey, and grew up in Italy. She translates from Turkish and Italian. She currently lives in London, where she works as a literary agent. As a translator, she was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.