Corbitt Nesta: 2 books

Luigi Beltani,consummate Italian chef, has finally realized his dream: his own gourmet restaurant in his hometown, Padernello, near Cremona, Italy. Despite resistance from his wife and mother-in-law, the restaurant is a success...until ‘presences’ from Padernello’s thousand-year past begin to visit,threatening both the restaurant’s existence and Luigi’s sanity.

Yes, sociopaths exist and exult in wreaking havoc on other people’s lives. Watch Konnie, domestic help-cum-wife in a wealthy, dysfunctional Italian family. On impulse, she steals a family heirloom, and then…