Book Title: A FONDNESS FOR TRUTH, the brand-new Polizei Bern mystery Character Name: Renzo Donatelli   What do you do for a living? I’m a cop. Specifically, I’m what the Canton of Bern Police call an investigator or Fahnder, a plain-clothes detective assigned to all kinds of cases: car thefts, drugs, break-ins, murders, you name it. I’m not a specialist like the homicide detectives I work with. That’s my ambition, to do homicide full-time.   Do you have a family? I have two families. There’s my big Italian family—my mother, big brother, two sisters, sister- and brothers-in-law, and all the kids. That family used to include my father, but he died of lung cancer six years ago when I was barely thirty. His death—well, that’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. When all of us have a Sunday lunch with my mother, we speak Italian because my parents were born in a village near Perugia. They came to Switzerland in their early twenties to get jobs here. Without our mother around, my brother and sisters and I speak mostly Swiss-German because we were born here in Bern, and all our schooling was in German. Actually, we speak a…

1–What is the title of your latest release? SONS AND BROTHERS 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Top heart surgeon Johann Gurtner was the model of an upright citizen, yet someone punched him in the face and pushed him into a river to drown. As Swiss police detectives Giuliana Linder and Renzo Donatelli investigate Gurtner’s present and past, the man’s estranged son Markus becomes their prime suspect. But is Markus really a killer, or is he, too, a victim? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? That was an easy decision! This is the second book in the “Polizei Bern” mystery series. All the novels take place in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, where I’ve lived with my Swiss husband for the past thirty-five years. I love setting scenes in the beautiful medieval core of the city. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I have two police detectives who work together and get more or less equal time in my books, and I’d have fun hanging out with either of them, talking to them about their work or their kids. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonists? Giuliana…