Every Beautiful City Has Teeth

Venice Just Hides Them Better

Most people visit Venice for romance.

Gondolas drifting through narrow canals.
Opera echoing across old stone streets.
The comforting fantasy that Venice exists outside the real world—untouched by consequence, decay, or violence.

It’s beautiful.

It’s theatrical.

And it’s very good at hiding what’s really happening underneath the surface.

Crowds Make People Invisible

The Vogalonga floods Venice with movement.

Boats cut through crowded canals.
Tourists fill the streets.
Music spills from restaurants while the city performs its usual magic trick—making chaos look elegant.

In Sinister Little Serenade, Marin arrives with one objective.

Assassinate former CIA asset Giovanni Malvetti.

One shot.
One body in the water.
One clean disappearance beneath the noise and spectacle of Venice’s biggest rowing event.

Professional.

At least, that was the plan.

Jane Never Keeps Things Simple

Jane calls them competency tests.

Marin calls them deeply irritating.

What should have been a straightforward hit quickly spirals into something far messier as Jane introduces one more complication into the assignment—because apparently surviving impossible situations builds character.

Now Marin is racing through opera houses, vanishing down alleyways, and trying not to get cornered while half of Italy’s law enforcement closes in around her.

And Venice suddenly feels much smaller than it did before.

Romance Looks Different at Knife Point

Venice likes to sell the idea of elegance.

Soft music.
Moonlight on water.
Beautiful people pretending danger belongs somewhere else.

Sinister Little Serenade tears straight through that illusion.

Because underneath all the romance and performance, Venice is still a maze.

And mazes are excellent places to hunt someone.

Or be hunted yourself.

If you like your thrillers sharp, stylish, and laced with chaos… if you prefer your assassins competent, dangerous, and one bad decision away from disaster…

This one’s for you.

Sinister Little Serenade is available now!

Because every beautiful city has teeth.

Venice just hides the bite marks better.