Death In Bagheria (A Serafina Florio Mystery) (30 page)

Characters

Serafina Florio,
midwife and sleuth, widow with seven children

Sister Genoveffa
, a nun

Lady Caterina Notobene
, baroness of Prizzi, Genoveffa’s mother, deceased

Giorgio
, Serafina’s husband, deceased

Maddalena
, Serafina’s mother, deceased

Loffredo
, Oltramari’s medical examiner, Serafina’s lover

Elena
, his wife, estranged and living in Paris

Don Tigro
, Oltramari’s mafia capo

Betta
, his wife, Serafina’s friend

Agata
, her lady’s maid

Carlo
, Serafina’s oldest son, a medical student

Carmela
, Serafina’s oldest daughter, a single mother, a landscaper, Carlo’s twin

Nunzio
, Carmela’s son

Renata
, Serafina’s second daughter, a pastry chef

Vicenzu
, Serafina’s middle son, a pharmacist

Giulia
, Serafina’s third daughter, a seamstress

Maria
, Serafina’s youngest daughter, a prodigy

Totò
, Serafina’s youngest son, an altar boy

Teo
, an orphan living with Serafina

Assunta
, Serafina’s domestic

Largo
, Serafina’s mule

Rosa
, Serafina’s friend, a single mother, an erstwhile madam

Tessa
, Rosa’s daughter

Arcangelo
, Rosa’s stableboy

Lord Geraldo Notobene,
husband of deceased baroness, father of Sister Genoveffa

Naldo
, his son and business partner

Adriana
, his young daughter

Ornetta
, Adriana’s nanny

Umbrello
, the baron’s butler

Lina
, a parlor maid

Doucette
, housekeeper at Villa Caterina; formerly the baroness’s lady’s maid

Marcello Noce
, the baroness’s physician

Luca della Trabia
, the baron’s
gabelloto

Mima
, the baron’s cook

Pietro
, her husband, gardener of the baron’s estates in Prizzi and Bagheria

Domenico
, their son

Badali
, a
carabiniere

Colonna
, an inspector in Oltramari

The commissioner
, Oltramari’s chief of police

Places

Oltramari
, fictional city on the northern coast of Sicily near Palermo, Serafina’s home

Bagheria
, the summer home of the nobility in the nineteenth-century, known for its lush villas and citrus groves

Coming Soon!

MURDER ON THE RUE CASSETTE

A Countess Murdered in Paris. Dark secrets. And one woman determined to uncover the truth.

April 1874. Serafina Florio
investigates the murder of a Sicilian countess in Paris, days before the First Impressionist Exhibit. The adventure introduces Serafina to a group of painters including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Berthe Morisot.

The mystery leads her to the back alleys of war-ravaged Paris still reeling from siege, starvation, and anarchy. But Serafina pursues the truth despite demands at home, haunting peril in a foreign land, and a heady romance.

Can she keep her family together? Will love prevail? Will she have enough time to catch the killers before they destroy all that she loves?

Meet Serafina Florio, a woman determined to uncover the truth against all odds.
Serafina Florio is a widow and midwife-turned-sleuth living in nineteenth-century Sicily where she supports seven children and catches killers against insurmountable odds.

Books in the Serafina Florio mystery series:
Death of a Serpent
No More Brothers
Death In Bagheria

About The Author

Susan Russo Anderson
was born in Evanston, Illinois. After attending Marywood High School for Girls and St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, she received a B.A. in English Literature from Marquette University.

She is a writer, a mother, a grandmother, a widow. Like Faulkner’s Dilsey, she has seen the best and the worst, the first and the last. Through it all, and to understand it somewhat, she writes.

Death In Bagheria
is the third book in the Serafina Florio mystery series.