Signora Volpe

Spy Sylvia Fox travels to Italy for the wedding of her niece.

As her new home undergoes renovation, Sylvia helps an old university friend at her archaeological dig, where Sylvia unearths a skeleton buried in a shallow grave.

When Sasha Pavlenko, the son of a Russian politician, is arrested in Rome for the murder of a fellow student, Sylvia's ex-husband and ex-colleague, Adam, asks her to investigate.

Police arrest Antonella's friend for the murder of a pillar of the local community, who was found dead at the charity he runs; to clear her friend's name, Sylvia follows a trail of blackmail, family secrets, and illicit love.

Freelancing for MI6, Sylvia poses as the PA for a diplomat's widow at her luxurious lakeside villa; she's keeping watch on a South American politician, but when a dead body is found in the lake, Riva is astonished to discover Sylvia already onsite.

When an old foe abducts Sylvia, she must draw on her formidable reserves of physical and mental resilience to escape; while Riva investigates through official channels, Henry and Isabel run their own covert operation, all of them racing to save her.