I'm quite intrigued. The first chapter is called 'I am a corpse' and has this sentence:'I'd never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness'

'Marcus cemented my reputation as a weirdo. What's more unusual than a young American woman landing in a two-hundred-person Umbrian farming village? Only a young American woman prancing around the village with the whacked out little hunting dog she found around back'

While reading a mystery murder novel about the murder of a mystery murder author at a mystery book conference and I found this little bit pleasantly ironic.