Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins (Harper, $25.99) opens on the shores of a quiet 1962 Cinque Terre fishing village, where we meet Dee Moray, a beautiful (fictional) American movie starlet fresh from the extravagant movie set of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's Cleopatra. Her arrival is hailed by a local as "a burst of clarity from a lifetime of sleep," a catalyst that sparks the whole tangled cast of characters into action.
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