The Past Comes Alive in Killer Smile

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I’m a big fan of Lisa Scottoline’s work. In Killer Smile, the ninth book in her Rosato & Associates series, Mary DeNunzio is working a cold case. The death of Amadeo Brandolini, an Italian-American detained as an enemy alien during WWII.

The book is rich with details of how the Italian Americans were detained during the war, like the Japanese and Germans, for nothing more than where they had come from, with no reason to…