Cara Massimina

Author: Tim Parks

Number of Pages: 288

Introducing unrepentant bourgeois serial killer Morris the Duckworth and his adventures in Veronese high society. Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation – to marry Massimina, one of his lovelier students. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the girl chooses to elope? Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris’s dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.