Letting Go: A Giuseppe Bianchi short story

By Isabella Muir

A short story, delving into the life of Italian detective, Giuseppe Bianchi.  In this story we are treated to a snapshot of his life in Italy, but he makes his first appearance in England in the first novel of the series bearing his name - Crossing the Line - a Giuseppe Bianchi mystery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outset Publishing Ltd
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201099466

Isabella Muir

Isabella is never happier than when she is immersing herself in the sights, sounds and experiences of the 1960s. Researching all aspects of family life back then formed the perfect launch pad for her works of fiction. Isabella rediscovered her love of writing fiction during two happy years working on and completing her MA in Professional Writing and since then has gone to publish five novels, two novellas and a short story collection. Her first Sussex Crime Mystery series features young librarian and amateur sleuth, Janie Juke. Set in the late 1960s, in the fictional seaside town of Tamarisk Bay, we meet Janie, who looks after the mobile library. She is an avid lover of Agatha Christie stories – in particular Hercule Poirot – using all she has learned from the Queen of Crime to help solve crimes and mysteries. As well as three novels, there are three novellas in the series, which explore some of the back story to the Tamarisk Bay characters. Her latest novel, Crossing the Line, is the first of a new series of Sussex Crimes, featuring retired Italian detective, Giuseppe Bianchi who arrives in the quiet seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, to find a dead body on the beach and so the story begins… Isabella’s standalone novel, The Forgotten Children, deals with the emotive subject of the child migrants who were sent to Australia – again focusing on family life in the 1960s, when the child migrant policy was still in force.

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LETTING GO

A Giuseppe Bianchi short story

Isabella Muir

LETTING GO

WE ALL HAVE our rituals, don’t we? The habits and repeated actions we use to structure our day are part of who we are, signposts to the way we want others to perceive us. We hang on to them fiercely, they are all we know, the familiar, the comfortable.

Take my sergeant, Silvio Bruni, for example. He arrives for work precisely ten minutes before his shift is due to start. There are two possible routes he could take from his home to work and he alternates between them. I only know this because he told me. When I asked him why, he had no answer. And what he does in the ten minutes before he starts work is a mystery to me. Clearly, my understanding of the habits of men is more limited that I would wish it to be. At least limited when it comes to Silvio - and his son, as it turns out.

I am not so rigid in certain of my own habits. On occasion, I arrive early for work.