‘The Unraveling of Julia’: An Entertaining Italian Thriller

Lisa Scottoline provides steady, straightforward fun about a grieving woman who gets thrust into a spooky Italian mystery.

Lisa Scottoline tells a supernatural mystery, in "The Unraveling of Julia." Grand Central Publishing

In “The Unraveling of Julia: A Psychological Thriller,” Lisa Scottoline takes the reader from America to a mysterious villa in Tuscany, Italy.

While walking home one night in Philadelphia, 32-year-old Julia Pritzker sensed there was something wrong. A few moments later, her husband Mike is murdered before her eyes by a street robber armed with a hunting knife. The whole incident is over in seconds; she can’t provide a detailed description because of the darkness; a blue hoodie obscured the attacker’s face.