Food, glamour, history – and a rivalry with deadly consequences.

A Swedish director and his stars travel to Rome to seek inspiration from the legendary life of Queen Christina ahead of an upcoming major motion picture. But after tours of Roman ruins, the treasures of the Vatican, and the film sets of Cinecittà, it becomes clear that the group harbors both tensions and secrets, and the glamour is abruptly shattered when a body is discovered in one of Rome’s most magnificent palazzos.

In the Eternal City, shaped over millennia by rivalry and power struggles, tour guide Lara Belmonte and history teacher Hugo Lind are once again drawn into a deadly mystery. Somewhere beneath the Italian sun, a murderer is hiding.

Rivals in Rome is the third book in the bestselling Murders Under the Sun series, featuring sun-drenched settings, great food, and intriguing murder mysteries.