The first book I published was about a story I did not want to die with me. I based the plot on the stories about World War II I heard from previous generations when I was a child and teenager. You see, my mother's family were Venetian Jews, and my mother, my grandmother, and various great-uncles were in the resistance. As I was revising the book, I had the idea of turning the character inspired by my grandmother into an investigative lawyer (she was one of the few women practising law in pre-World War II Italy) so I moved to writing historical crime fiction

My latest book, Venetian Gold, is a story set in Venice in 1930. It is the third story in the pre-World War II series "Rachele Modiano Mendes - the early years." Rachele Modiano Mendes, a lawyer working at the Venier-Zanin law firm, revises three contracts with the same clause. Borrowers had to use a specific shipping company, Fonda Trasporti, until they had fully repaid their loan. She is trying to figure out the reason behind the clause when the managing director, Enrico Fonda, is found dead the day her brother and one of her clients met him. Rachele must find out who killed Enrico Fonda. It is the best way to protect her client and her brother. Meanwhile, she receives a phone call from a Swiss police inspector asking for her cooperation. The contract and the Swiss police inspector are the key to the real crime discussed in the book.