A cozy detective story for a good mood. In late autumn, it’s time for truffle hunting. But the residents of a small town in the Tuscan mountains are worried about other problems. Someone has killed a famous chef, and—according to rumors—black riders have returned, the ones a legend tells about, true, on… motorcycles.
There are castles at every step here, wolves howl at night—but a vermentino glass warms the heart, while a nut-and-pepper soup sparks with rosemary bitterness. The heroine of the book, Russian lawyer Alexandra, goes from a ship straight to a ball. Yesterday she was walking in Venice with her beloved, but today she’ll have to survive in the November mountains, where the sun sets twice, search for a missing compatriot, and—along the way—find the chef’s murderer, meet the truffle dog, and befriend a wise owl.