After Antonio Bianco discovers that his ex-wife, Caroline, has kidnapped their only son, Adam, and vanished into the night, he quits his job as vice-president of a high-powered New York advertising firm, sells his palatial home in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and begins a nationwide manhunt for his son. However, when the police inform him that his beloved mother, Vera Santoro, has been murdered in her condominium in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, his grief soon turns into rage, and he decides to take up residency in his mother’s condo until her killer’s apprehended.
He soon discovers that his mother’s murder is inextricably linked to the ugly feud that exists between two headstrong, wealthy real estate investors, Joe Valenti and Allen Silverman, for control of the Golden Sand Condominium Association.
With the help of Venus Tierney, a lovely criminal law professor at the University of Florida, Antonio sets out to unravel the mystery behind his mother’s murder.
The characters are larger than life. Engrossing, with lots of twists and turns.
This is condo craziness gone amok. What more can I say.
The story moved me to tears. It reads like a romance novel.
Riveting, wonderfully original and soulful. I can’t wait to read another of Bitetti’s novels.
Slow to develop, but when it did it really took off.