Bella Mafia – Bookstore

Author: Lynda La Plante
Format: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 800 pages
Published: Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023

Don Roberto Luciano, boss of the Sicilian mafia, agrees to be a key witness in the trial of Paul Carolla, who murdered Luciano’s first-born son Michael twenty years ago. Despite 24-hour protection, all the Luciano men are murdered the night before a family wedding.

The don’s wife, Graziella, holds together what’s left of the family – daughters-in-law Theresa and Sophia, and Theresa’s daughter Rosa – while instructing their lawyer to sell business interests.

Eventually, the women themselves become involved in the company and try to recover money that has disappeared into Carolla’s hands. After a shootout in the courtroom, Carolla’s adopted son Luka, using his knowledge of organizational politics and his mastery of murder, becomes the woman’s partner and protector.

However, once the Luciano women discover Luka’s secret, they take unrelenting revenge in the ruthless manner of their age-old code, and the strongest of them becomes the new head of the family, the bella mafiosa. . .

Lynda La Plante’s many novels, including the Prime Suspect series, have all been international bestsellers. She is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and a member of the UK Crime Writers Awards Hall of Fame. In 2008 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors list. She runs her own television production company and lives in London and Easthampton, New York. Visit her website at LyndaLaPlante.com.