book cover of The Laughing Madonna
 

The Laughing Madonna

(2001)
A novel by

 
 
A sultry Florentine summer, a lost Leonardo Da Vinci painting, two dead bodies, an ancient Florentine aristocratic family with terrible secrets, a doomed love, missing jewelry and two odd tourists are the ingredients of this mystery by chick lit author Betsy Burke.
Expatriate Canadian Sally Riley makes a precarious living giving a few language lessons and guiding tourists around her adopted hometown of Florence, Italy. When she meets the mysterious Marzottos she is sucked into a web of murder and mayhem and finds herself transformed into an amateur sleuth, trying to track down her missing client while hot on the trail of the legendary lost Leonardo, `The Laughing Madonna.'



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