Como Lake is beautiful.
That doesn’t make it innocent.

Mia Hart knows that already: she is a foreigner, newly arrived in Como, still learning the rules people don’t say out loud: who gets greeted, who gets watched, who gets blamed.

She takes over a small book café near the Como–Brunate funicular, hoping for a quiet restart after her years as a consultant in London.

On a crowded ride between lake and hillside, someone dies. Not an accident, not a tragedy you can file away with condolences. A murder in plain sight: fast, clean, and almost perfectly timed to leave everyone shocked and nobody responsible.

Como reacts the way small, elegant towns do: with whispers, with smiles, with certainty that arrives long before evidence. Suddenly Mia isn’t just the new barista with an accent: she is the easiest story.

To survive, Mia has to do what outsiders always end up doing: watch harder than locals, ask questions no one likes, and follow the smallest details because on a funicular, in a small space, the truth can’t hide for long.

It only flickers.

You can read here an Abstract of the Book.

The book is available in print format only and can be purchased on Amazon.

You can reach me here: paolo@paolocasciatopubblicazioni.it

Title: Murder on the Funicolare. A Como Lake Cozy Mystery.
Author: Paolo Casciato
Language: English
Pages: 292
Year of Publication: 2026
Price: Euro 16.50
ISBN: 9798243370622