The Cassiatorre Quartet
One year. One town. Countless secrets.
It begins with a missing boy… and ends with a reckoning no one saw coming.
Set against the sun-soaked hills and shadowed alleys of southern Tuscany, The Cassiatorre Quartet is a sweeping series of slow-burn mysteries where loyalty clashes with law, and justice is anything but blind.
Commissario Moretti is a man of instinct and principle—trusted, respected, and nearly unbeaten. But as the seasons turn, the town he thought he knew begins to shift beneath him. Anonymous threats. Unwelcome returns. A justice system tilted by wealth and privilege. Across four novels, Moretti and his team confront not just crime, but the high cost of integrity in a world where silence is bought—and danger walks in plain sight.
Cinematic, character-driven, and rich in Italian atmosphere, The Cassiatorre Quartet is a beautifully crafted crime quartet perfect for readers of Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri who crave gripping plots, emotional depth, and a cast of unforgettable locals who evolve with every twist.
No-one escapes unchanged.
About John MacDonald
Crime. Culture. Corruption. And Hope
John MacDonald writes atmospheric mysteries where history refuses to stay buried and the past has a habit of killing people.
Inspired by the work of Andrea Camilleri, Donna Leon and Louise Penny, he creates stories in which personal grief, buried secrets and powerful interests collide. His novels combine compelling mysteries with richly drawn settings, exploring the tension between memory and truth, tradition and change, justice and power.
A lifelong lover of Italian culture and a frequent visitor to the Orkney Islands, John brings the same eye for landscape, community and concealed truth to every story. Whether set among the hills of Tuscany, the streets of Naples, the ancient traditions of Siena or the windswept shores of Orkney, his fiction is rooted in a strong sense of place and the people who call it home.
His work includes the Cassiatorre Quartet, the Dino Moretti novels and a growing range of standalone fiction.
When not writing, John is drawn to the quiet rhythms of Tuscan life and the stark beauty of Orkney.
The espresso is better in Tuscany. The secrets run deeper in Orkney.
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