Murder Returns to Gravigna

Summary

Big changes are coming to Gravigna, the place ex-NYPD officer Nico Doyle has come to call
home, and not all of them are positive. In the final Tuscan mystery, old tempers flare,
change is in the air, and all will be laid bare as Nico solves one final case.
When Sergio Macchi, the local butcher, is found dead, the whole town of Gravigna is affected,
namely Nico who takes the loss personally. At the local bar the town commemorates Macchi by
drinking grappa, but the cheers soon turn into ugly accusations as people question the ruling of
suicide and begin to point fingers at his young French wife, Delphine, who has conveniently left
Italy for the Easter Holiday.
Delphine asks Maresciallo Perillo to get Nico involved in the investigation as Macchi
respected him. Perillo, who is growing tired of his job, accepts the help, but Nico struggles to
work on a case that hits so close to home and embraces his time cooking with Tilde at Sotto Il
Fico, where he is at peace.
As the investigation simmers and tensions with his partner, Nelli, bubble to the surface, Nico
learns from Macchi's files that he owned several buildings in town and had just informed his
tenants—Gino who runs trattoria Da Gino, Luciana the florist, Oreste the barber, and Piero
Leonardi who runs an enoteca—that he was raising their rent 15 percent, news that surely
wouldn't have been taken well. Could that have been enough to get him killed? Nico will have to
turn to an unlikely outside source if he is to solve what might be his last case ever.