"Naples — seedy, beautiful, baroque — is the backdrop for this searing debut novel about an investigator working as a liaison between Italian police and the American military. Nikki Serafino, “short and compact and muscular with a dynamic, interesting face,” deals with misogynistic male colleagues while investigating not one but two murders."
“The Neapolitan setting and the details of underwater investigation give Heider’s debut an offbeat and entertaining gloss…A lively procedural with a high-powered heroine and a setting that would be idyllic if not for those murders.”
“May the Wolf Die is a brilliant thriller, cleverly crafted and unpredictable.”
“An intriguing mystery, a smart central character to root for, gorgeous setting, and authentic detail. This tense and brooding debut is everything crime fiction should be.”
" The author’s background spans physics, military analysis, and space research. She holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Utah and a PhD from Tufts University. Her career includes work with the European Space Agency’s Human Spaceflight program and her current role as a program manager for Microsoft’s AI4Science program in the Netherlands."
"...after completing her degree at the University of Utah, she worked as a deployed civilian analyst with the U.S. Navy, including three years stationed in Naples. Her work took her to 15 African countries, saw her training troops in Senegal, Gabon, and Cameroon, and even lecturing at INTERPOL headquarters in France."