About MAY the WOLF DIE
The Author
Elizabeth Heider is a PhD physicist who works for Microsoft’s AI4Science Research Program. Her short fiction has earned recognition from the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Literary Awards and the New Century Writer Awards, as well as writing and research for government agencies and for the European Space Agency where she worked as a scientist. Raised in Utah, she lived in Naples Italy for several years, working as a civilian research analyst for the US Navy, deploying aboard U.S. and European Naval ships. She is based in the Hague.
Publication: Summer 2024
Nikki Serafino is enjoying the sunset from her boat in her beloved port city of Naples, Italy when she discovers the body of a strangled man in the warm waters of the bay. As an investigator with a security unit tasked with liaison between local authorities and the US military, Nikki is certainly no stranger to violence and organized crime, but this case grows complicated when the victim turns out to be a US Navy captain stationed at the nearby military base—and when the autopsy reveals that his body has been boiled. As she delves into the case, Nikki unearths connections linking the murder and her own complicated history as a daughter of Naples. To catch a killer, Nikki must enter a dangerous world from a difficult past she wanted to leave behind. A richly textured and mercilessly gripping debut, MAY THE WOLF DIE by Elizabeth Heider brings the character-driven crime fiction of Dervla McTiernan and Jane Harper to the streets of present-day Naples, exploring the dynamics of people trapped in the currents of organized crime, in the unyielding gears of the military, and in the pain of their own family legacies.