Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist in Rome, working for Newsweek, The Daily Beast and CNN. For more than two decades she has covered crime in Europe, Italian politics, the Vatican, migration, the refugee crisis and women’s issues. Her previous book about the murder trials of Amanda Knox, Angel Face (2010), was adapted for film by Michael Winterbottom (The Face of an Angel, 2015), starring Kate Beckinsale as a journalist based on Barbie herself.