The same golden September morning the town pathologists' teenage daugher is discovered hanging off a tree in the woods above Assisi (Umbria, Italy), the high-powered planning director of Perugia narrowly escapes death in a paragliding accident.  Commissario Lorenzetti senses foul play.  The police department is overstretched and he asks his best friend and fellow investigator Sister Lucia to look into the suicide.  But will her judgement be clouded by her own guilty secret? This is a story about leaps - real and metaphorical, taken and not taken.

The Leap

Chapter 30








Chapter 12
He was on his way. Not racing but driving slowly. Thinking through what he wanted to know from Roberto Tronco, he followed the Satnav's metallic-mechanical directions.

He was no fan of this technology. It wasn’t just that it was yet another weapon in the armour of the st...








Chapter 12
He was on his way. Not racing but driving slowly. Thinking through what he wanted to know from Roberto Tronco, he followed the Satnav's metallic-mechanical directions.

He was no fan of this technology. It wasn’t just that it was yet another weapon in the armour of the st...

Chapter 12

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29