Gabellotto's Daughter

Some silences take a generation to break.Sicily, 1873. When seventeen-year-old Giovanna Galbo finds her father murdered on the church bench at dawn — a black river stone set in each open palm — the whole town understands the message and no one dares repeat it. Her father was the gabellotto, the broker whose records could make or unmake a family. Someone forced those records to lie, and killed him ...