Lies in the Lagoon
Catherine Banerjee Rojko
Type: ARC
Genre: Historical fiction, mystery
Word count: 80,000
On the eve of the Fourth Crusade, a Venetian official negotiates an agreement to build a fleet of ships to ferry the crusaders across the Mediterranean Sea. Plots threaten the crusade. In 2021, two retired women attorneys take an Italian class in Venice. When their classmate dies, the police rule it an accident, but the women are not so sure.
What’s this?
Two deaths separated by eight centuries. Could the deaths be linked by secrets buried in the past?
Venice, city of mystery. On the eve of the Fourth Crusade, a government official is negotiating an agreement to build a fleet of ships to ferry the crusaders across the Mediterranean Sea. Plots threaten the crusade, and fortunes hang in the balance.
Eight hundred years later, two retired government lawyers travel to Venice to take an Italian class and play tourist. When their classmate dies, the police rule it an accident, but the women are not so sure. Will these two senior-citizen attorneys solve a mystery spanning centuries and find justice for their classmate?
Catherine Banerjee Rojko is a retired attorney. She spent most of her career enforcing environmental laws for the U.S. Department of Justice. While sitting at her desk prior to retiring, she daydreamed of writing a mystery set in Venice. Lies in the Lagoon is the result.
A native of McLean, Virginia, Ms. Rojko has two degrees from the University of Virginia, a B.A. in Russian Studies and a J.D. She enjoys taking classes, hiking, and traveling, especially to Venice. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, and has many wonderful nieces and nephews spread throughout the world.
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