Rachel Hawkins

Friends... or frenemies ? Emily and Chess used to be inseparable, but lately, they've grown apart. When Chess rents a luxurious Italian villa for the summer and invites Emily, it sounds like she's ready to bury the hatchet. An italian villa with a murderous past. It's the summer of 1914, and a group of notorious rock stars and writers have come to stay at Villa Rosato. Passions run high and creative sparks fly ; in their wake emerge With Rising, one of the greatest horror novels of all time ; the platinum pop album Aestas - and a brutal murder.
A secret hidden in the walls. As Emily digs into the murder, she begins to suspect that it wasn't a simple case of sex, drugs, and rock and roll gone wrong and that the truth is hidden between the lines of With Rising and Aestas - and in the walls of the villa itself. But as secrets from the past come to light, Emily realizes that an equally dangerous betrayal maybe happening in the present... Will the villa claim another victim before the summer ends ?