Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

The Hotel of the Three Roses, by Augusto de Angelis, is another title resurrected by Pushkin Press and Vertigo Press from the depths of obscurity. It was originally published in 1936, in Italian. While it is the seventh book featuring Commissario de Vincenzi (according to Goodreads), The Hotel of the Three Roses doesn’t really require any prior knowledge of the series. After a chapter or two to set the scene—a seedy hotel in Milan in 1919—the mystery begins. A man is found hanging at the top of the stairs at the hotel. Nearly every one of the hotel’s guests has something to hide, a shared secret no one wants to reveal to the dogged Commissario. Of course, secrets are impossible to keep in the midst of a murder investigation...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from Edelweiss for review consideration.