SPRING 2023

A family Trilogy

The loss of a Family Patriarch, The Crucifix under a glass dome, and Sicilia

Anna Buonoforte and her children are attending the funeral of the family patriarch, Enzo Giocomo Bunoforte, with great sadness and grief. The promise to Anna that she can live in her home for the rest of her life will be broken and Anna’s fate will create family turmoil and great sadness for Anna. The Director of the Paramus Nursing home, Anna Avero, is taken to court by a woman who is trying to admit her mother into the Paramus Nursing and is refused admittance by Mrs. Avero. The exposure of the possession of the Crucifix under a glass dome at Enzo Buonoforte’s funeral may proof fatal to the family who has possession of it. It’s authenticity and Renaissance creator is being investigated in the shadows of The Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, Italy by some surprising investigators who also want to find out how was it taken from the Vatican Museum, and how it got into the possession of Enzo’s late step-mother. There is also the question of how it was smuggled out of Mussomeli, Sicily. These and other questions will necessitate a trip to Sicily where family secrets will be revealed. Paths will be crossed by members of the La Cosa Nostra, or are they? The truth finally comes out about the killing of the gang responsible for the death of a Clifton, New Jersey undercover drug officer.