Welcome. MURDER IN ITALY (Penguin/Berkley Books), is the true story of Amanda Knox, the American college student convicted of murdering her British roommate in a seemingly idyllic Italian hilltop town. Buy it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and IndieBound. Slip it into your purse or beach bag. Take it to your book club. This is Eat, Pray, Love gone horribly wrong. Under the Tuscan Sun on the dark side.  

"A cast of characters Patricia Highsmith couldn't have invented," says Richard Owen, correspondent for the Times of London.

This real-life Italian murder mystery grew out of my blog, hosted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and read worldwide.  I've reported on the Amanda Knox case for CNN Headline News, KOMO-TV (the ABC affiliate) and Italian TV. My blog has been featured on CNN Anderson Cooper 360, Newsweek. com, Corriere della Sera, Oggi and Martha Stewart Living Radio. 

Meet the Author
I'm an award-winning Italian-American journalist and travel writer. I've written for the Chicago Tribune, Boston Phoenix and many other outlets. My adventure tales appear in Travelers Tales and Seal Press anthologies. I'm the former editor/producer of Underwire, a MSN Website that Newsweek called "cheeky, nicely written, fun." The New York Times praised it for "serious sisterhood."