Isabella's dead.

She must be, because she just
found her own corpse in an alley.

Now she'd quite like some answers,
like who killed her, and how come
she's never felt so alive?

There's only one man who can solve
such an impossible mystery: shoe maker and
reluctant detective Lorenzo Valentini. But how
does it relate to a farm worker who lived in the
Casentino Valley over twenty years earlier? Will
an attempt to divert the course of the Arno
to win the war with Pisa succeed?
And, most importantly of all, can
Isabella afford Valentini's fee?

Witness a murderous romp through Renaissance Italy
in a tale of death, obsession, shoe making and war.