The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa
Scottoline
Published: July 15, 2025 by Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Mystery
Thriller
Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.
Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard —but her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Julia has no information about her biological family, so she wonders if Rossi could be a blood relative. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers.
There, Julia is horrified to discover that Rossi was a paranoid recluse with delusions of grandeur, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a legendary Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Rossi, and even to Caterina. Then she unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology.
Before long, Julia suspects she’s being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her disturbed mind. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia’s harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival.
My Thoughts: Lisa
Scottoline is a must-read author. I
will continue to pick up any book that she writes. The Unraveling of Julia is a
little different than her other books.
The book has a mystery thriller aspect, but it also has twists and turns
that had a magical aspect.
I am still not sure how I feel about Julia. Her husband’s death and how it happened would
affect anyone. Everything that happened
in Italy forced her to come out of her grief and find a way to continue
living. I was cheering her on, hoping
that she would find all the answers that she was looking for.
The Unraveling of Julia is not my favorite books of Lisa
Scottoline’s but it is still a book that I will recommend to my magical,
mystery thriller readers.
Thank you Grand Central Publishing for a copy of the book
via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
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Her kindle exclusive book, PigeonTony’s Last Stand: A Rosato and DiNunzio Short Story, was nominated for a
Macavity Awards Best Mystery Short Story, 2024.
She also writes a weekly column titled “Chick Wit” which is
a witty and fun take on life from a woman’s perspective. After running in
the Philadelphia Inquirer for fifteen years, Chick Wit is
now available online.
These stories, along with many other never-before-published stories, have been
collected in a New York Times bestselling series of humorous
memoirs including their most recent, I See Life Through Rosé-Colored
Glasses, and earlier books, I Need A Lifeguard Everywhere But The
Pool; I’ve Got Sand in All the Wrong Places; Does This
Beach Make Me Look Fat?; Have a Nice Guilt Trip; Meet Me at
Emotional Baggage Claim; Best Friends, Occasional Enemies; My
Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space; and Why My Third
Husband Will Be a Dog, which has been optioned for TV.
Lisa reviews popular fiction and non-fiction, and her
reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington
Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as
president of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed,
“Justice and Fiction” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma
mater. Lisa is a regular and much-sought-after speaker at library and corporate
events. Lisa has over 30 million copies of her books in print and is published
in over 35 countries. She lives in the Philadelphia area with an array of
disobedient pets, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
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