# Painted in Blood

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- Book: [Painted in Blood](https://www.bookquiver.com/ilaria-tuti/painted-in-blood) ([Painted in Blood.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ilaria-tuti/painted-in-blood.md))
- Authors: [Ilaria Tuti](https://www.bookquiver.com/ilaria-tuti), [Anna Bentinck](https://www.bookquiver.com/anna-margot)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0918-052-4
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days of the Second World War. A painting carrying a shocking secret hidden in the red pigment on the canvas, made with the blood of a human heart. But whose heart? There is no body, no confession. Only that faint trace of blood. And that's what leads commissioner Teresa Battaglia - herself hiding an unspeakable truth - to the Resia Valley, in the north eastern part of Italy: a perfect genetic enclave protected for centuries from the outside world. The valley and the portrait are the only clues for a murder that occurred more than 70 years before. A red thread leading to the shadow of someone hell-bent on protecting a sacred secret.