Rome, 1946. A young woman is found brutally murdered in her own apartment. U.S. Army Captain Dan Kelly works with the local police, but the investigation stalls — and the killer walks free. Los Angeles, 1950. Three more women are murdered, each in the same grotesque fashion. Now a small-town detective in Orange County, Kelly is pulled into the case by the LAPD, who suspect a link to the unsolved killing in Rome. As Kelly traces the pattern from postwar Europe to the uneasy calm of 1950s California, he’s forced to confront old failures, buried secrets, and the haunting realization that some crimes are never really left behind. The Killer of Rome is a gripping historical mystery set between two cities — where the past isn’t buried — just waiting to be uncovered.