Murder on the Funicolare: A Como Lake Cozy Mystery

Como Lake is beautiful.
That doesn't make it innocent.
Mia Hart knows that already: she is a foreigner, newly arrived in Como, still learning the rules people don't say out loud: who gets greeted, who gets watched, who gets blamed.
She takes over a small book café near the Como-Brunate funicular, hoping for a quiet restart after her years as a consultant in London.
On a crowded ride between lake and hillside, someone dies. Not an accident, not a tragedy you can file away with condolences. A murder in plain sight: fast, clean, and almost perfectly timed to leave everyone shocked and nobody responsible.
Como reacts the way small, elegant towns do: with whispers, with smiles, with certainty that arrives long before evidence. Suddenly Mia isn't just the new barista with an accent: she is the easiest story.
To survive, Mia has to do what outsiders always end up doing: watch harder than locals, ask questions no one likes, and follow the smallest details because on a funicular, in a small space, the truth can't hide for long. It only flickers. Info at: www.paolocasciatopubblicazioni.it