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Captivating critics and
readers, SIGNATURES IN STONE, was the OVERALL WINNER in the DAPHNE DU MAURIER
AWARDS for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense Writing - best mystery of 2013
Rome, Italy - November 2023 -
Pleasure Boat Studio is thrilled to announce the release of the second edition
of Linda Lappin's celebrated novel, SIGNATURES IN STONE: A BOMARZO MYSTERY.
This captivating suspense tale takes readers on a thrilling journey through the
enigmatic Monster Park of Bomarzo, also known as the Sacred Wood, an
extraordinary Baroque sculpture garden in Italy. With the 500th anniversary of
the park's creation, this edition is accompanied by a magnificent new cover and
a series of Tarot card illustrations by Santa Fe artist Carolyn Florek.
In SIGNATURES IN STONE, readers
are transported to the atmospheric setting of the Monster Park of Bomarzo, a
sixteenth-century garden adorned with mythical creatures believed to represent
a terrifying journey into the realm of nightmares. Against this backdrop, four
travelers find themselves intertwined in a fate-driven Italian holiday. Daphne,
a British writer of occult mysteries, her down-on-his-luck aristocratic publisher
Nigel, the aspiring artist and American gigolo Clive, and the art historian
Professor Finestone, all converge in a dilapidated villa near the park. They
are attended by rustic servants who harbor secrets of their own.
Professor Finestone has made a
groundbreaking discovery, revealing that the garden was designed by one of
Italy's greatest artists as a transformative experience that delves into the
shadow side of life. Over the centuries, the park's meanders continue to
influence the minds and destinies of those who venture within. As the group
explores their heart's desires amidst the haunting sculptures, they become
entangled in a web of intrigue and danger. When Daphne, renowned for writing
cozy murder tales, becomes the prime suspect in a shocking homicide, she must
confront her own darkness and rely on her sleuthing skills to uncover the
terrifying truth.
Linda Lappin's gripping tale
presents an intriguing exploration of gardens in Renaissance Italy, where they
were regarded as tools for altering consciousness and changing destiny. The
Monster Park of Bomarzo becomes the backdrop for a
"Gothic-in-Wonderland" phantasmagoria, immersing readers in a
suspenseful and thrilling journey.
New Edition of Linda Lappin's
Award-Winning SIGNATURES IN STONE: A BOMARZO MYSTERY Commemorates the 500th
Anniversary of the Monster Park.
“Layers of mystery are woven into Linda Lappin's beautifully written and atmospheric historical novel set in Bomarzo, Italy's enigmatic park of stone monsters.”
~ Gigi Pandian, author of The Accidental
Alchemist.
“Deftly mixing fascinating art history and murder with an exotic atmospheric setting (the Bomarzo garden actually exists), dramatic historical period (1928 fascist Italy), and fully fleshed characters, Lappin (The Etruscan) has written a hallucinatory gothic mystery in which no one is as they appear. Daphne is a most memorable, if a bit unreliable narrator. Readers looking for an intelligent summer mystery will find much to savor here.”
~ Wilda Williams, Library Journal
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Snippet
Without inspiration, I could not write. What I needed was a new batch of signatures, those curious messages our waking life sends us from our own unconscious, which I have come to see as promptings from the muse, and even as a spiritual guide for my own existence.
We are constantly immersed in a network of signs and symbols, whose meaning eludes us, but which, if only we could read them, would reveal every detail of our past and even predict our future.
The mind talks to itself not with words, but with scrambled symbols, pictures, fragments, often severed from any literal meaning. If we wish to learn to read them, we must abandon the rational links of words to thoughts. Signatures are always there waiting for us, like unopened letters slid beneath the front door, accumulating after a long absence, written in a hieroglyphic alphabet we have forgotten.
Linda Lappin, poet, translator, novelist, and travel writer is the prize-winning author of four novels: The Etruscan (Wynkin deWorde, 2004); Katherine’s Wish (Wordcraft, 2008), dealing with the last five years of Katherine Mansfield’s life; Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery (Pleasureboat Studio, 2013,2023), overall winner of the Daphne Du Maurier award for best mystery novel of 2013; and Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne (Serving House Books, 2020), 2021 Daphne Du Maurier award finalist and shortlisted for the 2021 Montaigne Medal for Books of Distinction.
She is also the author of The Soul of Place: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci, (Travelers Tales, 2015), winner of a Nautilus Award in the category of creativity in 2015.
A former Fulbright scholar to Italy, she has lived mainly in Rome for over thirty years. She is at work on a second Daphne Dublanc mystery novel, Melusine, set in Bolsena. The second edition of Signatures in Stone (2023) has been issued to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Monster Park.
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Thank you for hosting Linda Lappin today, with a snippet from Signatures in Stone.
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