Chicago’s opulent Gold Coast becomes a stage for a crime that unravels a decades-old chain of secrets in The Wooden Alley Murder. When a mutilated body is discovered in a historic wooden alley, amateur sleuths Ceci and Avery Felcetti—a sharp-witted chef and her blocked novelist husband—find themselves entangled in a labyrinth of lies. Their pursuit of truth collides with Liuni Tassi, a Sicilian businessman whose veneer of elegance masks a lion’s hunger for vengeance. As buried sins surface, from Rome’s cloistered convents to Sicily’s mafia-run streets, loyalties fracture, and even faith becomes a weapon…