Eine Nonne wurde in einem abgelegenen italienischen Benediktinerinnen-Kloster brutal ermordet. Kommissar David Segre aus Rom nimmt die Ermittlungen in dem Kloster auf, das von Äbtissin Michela mit eiserner Hand geführt wird. Da geschieht ein zweiter Mord. Schnell gerät Pater Zeffirini, Prior des benachbarten Männer-Klosters und Beichtvater der Benediktinerinnen in Verdacht, der der Onkel eines der Opfer war. Doch dann macht Zeffirini eine erschütternde Entdeckung und wird selbst Ziel eines Mordanschlags.

Traces the legendary author's life, from the images and memories of his early boyhood, to his tragic suicide at the age of sixty-two. We first meet Hemingway as a young boy dominated by the virile figure of his father, a doctor devoted to hunting and fishing. Hemingway next appears as an 18 year old ambulance driver during the World War I who is wounded on the front of Piave. In the hospital, he meets and falls in love with a young Red Cross nurse who will later become the model for his heroine in " A Farewell to Arms", a fictionalizes account of his experience as a young soldier coming to grips with the horrors of war. Hemingway becomes a foreign correspondent and travels to France, Italy and Spain. But soon abandons his journalistic career and settles in Paris to write novels and short stories. Interspersed throughout the story are Hemingway's encounters with an enigmatic woman of indeterminate age who becomes his closest confidant. She is the personification of death's shadow and ..