Temporary Perfections: Guido Guerrieri Series, Book 4

Manuela, the daughter of a wealthy couple from Bari, disappeared without a trace months before and the police have closed their investigation, to the parents' despair. Counsellor Guerrieri reluctantly takes on an unusual assignment: to seek new evidence to force the police to reopen the case. It's a job more suitable to a private detective but a job that leads him to Nadia, a former client, a fascinating woman with an ambiguous past, and to the tempting Caterina, Manuela's best friend - exquisitely too young for the jaded Guerrieri....