R. Kelényi Angelika - A lánynevelde 1.

Love secrets and crimes - Rome, 1865

Five years after what happened in the monastery of Sant'Ambrogio...
With the support of Princess Katharina, Blanca, aka Christina Rivera, together with her sisters, creates a girls' school for hopeless children and young women.
The school named Sorores will be a refuge for orphans, disgraced and outcasts. In the boarding school, the students receive an excellent education, but they are not only taught science, arts and fine manners...
At the urging of his friend, Father Valentini, Marco Fiore opens a private detective agency and over the years solves more and more successful criminal cases. One day, a desperate woman knocks on his door and asks for his help with her missing husband. The rich man is a notorious skirt hunter, but according to his wife, he would never leave her without a word. The woman is sure that he is dead or kidnapped.
The clues lead to a revelry, in the secret rooms of which mysterious séances are held.
At the same time, Christina finds a bleeding, half-dead young woman at the gates of her school, who asks her for protection...
The girls of Sorores help him, but does he deserve their support?
And is there a connection between the case of the missing man and the tortured girl?
Marco and Christina investigate together again, and not only the threads of the two crimes are intertwined...
Angelika R. Kelényi, winner of the Terézanyu Prize and repeatedly nominated for the Golden Book Award, takes her readers to 19th-century Rome. In the third part of the Riva sisters series, he again uncovers a scandalous criminal case with the help of the two protagonists. As we have become accustomed to from the writer, the novel is interwoven with secrets, murders, adventure, passion and romance.