Linda LappinLinda Lappin, poet, translator, and novelist, 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 omarzo Mystery (Pleasureboat Studio, 2013), 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), 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.Her website is www.lindalappin.net Read More Read Less