Roman Collar Crime

Father Joseph Brennan was an icon in the small North Dakota town of New London between 1953 and 1973. As the head of the town’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish and its associated boarding school, he amassed supporters with his show of dedication to the school. By recruiting elite coaches, Brennan built a high school sports empire that won state championships and strengthened a sense of pride among the town’s one thousand residents. But alongside the success story, another much darker tale was being written and ruthlessly suppressed. Sexual assault, theft, drug distribution, and ...

Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a national symbol of opposition to the death penalty. Its ancient history is chock full of romantic but erroneous myths.

See Rome and Die was originally published in French under the title Voir Rome et mourir Nineteen-year-old Julie is found lying in a pool of blood on her family's lavish estate. When Captain Thomas Sturm searches her belongings, he finds a secret cellphone, filled to the brim with images of Modigliani masterpieces. Why did Julie hide something as unexceptional as pictures of famous paintings? Sturm and lovely Italian Inspector Laura Tonacci join forces to navigate the art world in pursuit of truth and justice for Julie.