Karen Tintori, who with Jill Gregory co-authored THE BOOK OF NAMES, their internationally bestselling debut thriller, also has a solo hardcover release from St. Martin's this year. UNTO THE DAUGHTERS: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family comes out this July.



Part family memoir, part true-crime, it is chilling tale about family "honor." PW calls it "poignant ... a harrowing tale of sorrow and shame."



It is the story of a secret great-aunt, erased from the family for more than 80 years after she was brutally murdered in 1920s Detroit and all of her belongings were destroyed. Tintori discovered her in an obliterated entry on the family passport while exploring family genealogy, then spent over a decade ferreting out the truth of what had happened to Francesca.



"Switching back and forth between rural Sicily and early 20th century Detroit, UNTO THE DAUGHTERS reads like a nonfiction version of the film Godfather II - if it had been told from the point of view of a female Corleone. In exploring her own family's secret history, Karen Tintori gives voice not just to her victimized aunt but to all Italian-American daughters and wives silenced by the power of omerta. Half gripping true-crime story, half moving family memoir, UNTO THE DAUGHTERS is both fascinating and frightening, packed with telling details and obscure lklore that help bring the suffocating world of a Mafia family to life." --Eleni Gage, author of North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots.



Karen Tintori is an internationally bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction whose novels, written with Jill Gregory, have been translated into eighteen languages. Their SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE became a CBS-TV Movie-of-the-Week. Her critically acclaimed solo work, TRAPPED: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster, was among the Chicago Tribune's 2002 Favorite Books and has been optioned for film. TRAPPED, along with her July, 2007 release from St. Martin's, UNTO THE DAUGHTERS, will be taught in Italian American Studies at the Harvard Extension School. Tintori has a B.A. in journalism from Wayne State University, lives in Michigan, and holds dual U.S.-Italian citizenship. Visit her at www.karentintori.com.