Orvieto

In fact, at one point he just addressed a letter to her hometown of Orvieto, Italy, hoping it would reach her.

Here, a contemporary author of cozy mysteries joins a friend at a homey yet grand villa outside Orvieto, in the hope of regaining her storytelling mojo — but we gradually learn, through a second narrative, that something terrible happened here back in the 1970s.

They may differ in nuance and expression, but any of them, whether pecorino, verdicchio, grillo, carricante, vermentino, Orvieto, Soave, Trebbiano d’Abruzzo or Gavi will go beautifully with this dish.

More specifically, lively, high-acid Italian whites will go well with this dish, whether Orvieto from Umbria, vermentino from Liguria, Gavi from Piedmont, Fiano di Avellino or Verdicchio di Matelica.

I left our hotel in 2014 to walk to the edge of Orvieto, Italy, a thousand feet above the Umbrian plains, where the city wall’s ramparts, still in darkness, framed the first rays striking farms below.