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Voices in the Dark
by Lindsay Townsend   

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Romance

Publisher:  Hodder Headline ISBN-10:  0340622970 Type: 
Pages: 

440

Copyright:  1995 ISBN-13:  9780340622971
Fiction

Julia Rochfort, a young opera singer, visits Italy to take part in a competition judged by Roberto Padovano, a world-famous bass. When he and Julia meet and fall in love, the consequences will be devastating. Julia and Roberto are already connected by terrifying events that took place before they were born: the atrocities inflicted on a Tuscan village in 1944 by a torturer known only as 'Scarpia' after the villain in Puccini's opera Tosca. As they uncover the intricate web of betrayal, deception and guilt, the danger grows. For Scarpia and some who share his guilt are still alive - and desperate to keep their past secret for ever.

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I wrote 'Voices in the Dark' as a mixture of thriller, whodunit and romance. The visit of a young opera singer, Julia Rochfort, to Florence to sing in a competition sparks a search to unmask the interrogator responsible for the brutal death of her grandfather during the German occupation of Italy in 1943. Convinced that the culprit, known only as 'Scarpia' after the villain of Puccini's opera 'Tosca', is still alive, Julia and a fellow-singer, Roberto, set out to track him down and bring him to justice. But 'Scarpia' now possesses damning criminal secrets and, as Julia and Roberto pursue his trail through Milan, Florence, Venice and Bologna they find the Italian underworld joining forces against them. In ˜Voices in the Dark" I have tried to tell a story of dangerous old ghosts from World War II in a carefully researched Italian setting. 

 

 

 

 


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Summer 1944. Italy.

The terror began with the music. As they wound up the gramophone, the youth moaned and thrashed, trying hopelessly to break free. He lay in chains, a blindfold cutting into his eyes. The walls of the underground chamber were wet: blood or water he did not know. Sometimes he touched the stones with his broken fingers, desperate to invoke their silence in himself.

This time would he break? The record needle dropped onto the '78, the chamber rang. A finger glided down the boy's calf - he tensed, but the pain did not come at the music's climax. A lighted cigarette was thrust against his right foot and allowed to burn, spitting in the open wounds.

'Tell me!' The whisper carried over the chords, over his scream, piercing the moment when he felt he could bear no more.

'Know nothing...' He shuddered. 'Don't.' He lifted his head, pleading with the Whisperer, the voice he most feared.

There was a moment's silence. And then a man, another captive, suddenly began shouting.

'I'll have you! Not one of your family will be safe! I'll have your wives, your children - their children... I promise you - you'll see....'

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January, present day, Venice.

Venice. Neither Julia nor Roberto had ever been to the floating city. Free of memories and ghosts, deserted by tourists in a day of freezing fog, Venice was theirs.

Leaning out from the bridge, Julia spoke their united thought. 'Glad we came.' Time, their constant harrier, glided like the mist-gilded streams under their feet as they regarded each other.

They kissed on the bridge, the silver fog rising from the water hiding them and the city in a secret embrace.

'I wish we could stay,' said Roberto, when they surfaced a little from the kiss. Julia turned a dreamy open face sidelong and ran her eyes over him. She wanted this rippling quiet, this day of misted sun glinting on the tops of suspended marble palaces, to go on forever. No more struggle for success, no more troubles. No more Scarpia.

'I can't get used to you without that plaster cast,' she murmured, obliterating the world as she pressed her cheek against his chest. 'I like the suit.' Dark grey, classically cut, worn with eye-grabbing panache, the suit had been a revelation. She already had designs for borrowing the waistcoat. She hugged him tight. 'You look great.'

'And you are truly gorgeous.' Roberto stroked a hand down her back. 'Why do you hide those legs?'

His hand, and even more his eyes were doing things to her.

'Shall we?' he said.




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