The Couturier of Milan — Ian Hamilton

New-World China meets Old-World Italy, as Ava investigates the dark side of the glamourous world of fashion in the latest installment of the Ava Lee Novels.

Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÃ -- fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters -- May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee -- have made over the past year. The show is a success, but perhaps too much of one. It attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal partner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. When VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters' stake in the company, Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PÃ -- comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base begins to abandon them.

With the help of Xu, Ava uncovers the dark and complex dynamics between East and West in the global fashion industry, eventually leading to a confrontation between two of the world's biggest crime syndicates.